Articles tagged ‘conferences’

Red Hat's annual conference from May 9 to 11 was held in San Diego this year. More than 1400 developers and customers attended the Summit to learn about the latest and greatest in open source technologies.

MySQL's annual conference from April 23-26, 2007 in Santa Clara, California was all about gathering community, customers and getting ready for going IPO.

OSS can break the cycle of red-tape and budget limitations hindering the effectiveness of government information services.

Sun's annual Java Developer Conference in San Francisco this May brought waves of technology announcements. There were lots of lights, camera and even action towards opening up Java.

Forget the Desktop! The new computer game is consumers and convergence.

Once again LinuxWorld, held at San Francisco’s still glamorous Moscone West, represents Open Source’s hottest foundry for forging a durable blend of corporation and community. This year’s show did provide a peek into the progress of technology funded by the deep pockets of significant business interests.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this year witnessed more than 2000 hackers, geeks and entrepreneurs demonstrating the phenomenal growth of open source.

At the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), true friends, supposed friends, and sworn enemies of OSS, all vied with each other to steer open source to their own advantage.

Dedication to OSS at CeBIT was an affirmation of Linux and Open Source but at the same time the world’s largest IT fair was a missed opportunity.

As the market for software becomes bullish, a lot of attention is being showered on new open source development tools and frameworks. The star example today is the Eclipse Foundation’s namesake IDE.