Open Source Meets Business 2008

Abstract

Die 2007 gegründete Linux-Foundation ist eine Non-profit-Organisation, die das Wachstum von Linux im Wettbewerb mit geschlossenen, kommerziellen Plattformen fördern will. Der Referent erläutert, wie die Linux Foundation zu diesem Zweck einheitliche Ressourcen und Services bereitstellen will (Vortrag auf Englisch).

Biographie: Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Zemlin previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise application service provider that had a successful initial public offering in July 2000. Widely quoted in the press on open source and commercial software trends, Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference, Linux World and OSCON. Zemlin is an adviser on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.