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Title:

Lessons Learned from Open Source Software

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Organizer:
Neelan Choksi, SpringSource
Description:
Open Source Software, once considered revolutionary, has increasingly been accepted as mainstream. In this panel of some of the most experienced open source leaders and analysts, we will explore what has made open source successful and what lessons all businesses can learn from this paradigm shifting technology.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is open source software?
  2. How does open source software compare to proprietary software?
  3. What business models have been most successful in open source companies?
  4. Why is community of such critical importance with open source?
  5. What factors have made open source successful?
  6. Now that open source companies have shown so much success, what lessons can traditional businesses learn from open source software?
  7. What types of disruption has open source created in industries where it has been successful?
  8. Is open source anything more than marketing and low cost distribution?
  9. In industries touched by open source, who have been the winners and who have been the losers?
  10. What is the future of open source?
Panelists:
Larry Augustine (lmaugustin.com), Neelan Choksi, moderator (SpringSource), Michael Cote (RedMonk), Rod Johnson (SpringSource)
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
New Technology / Next Generation
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Michael Cote'
on 15/8/08
It'd be great to see and discuss how open source has linked itself up to the more SaaS/cloud world that much of the SXSWi technologies find themselves living in.
Silona Bonewald
on 15/8/08
perhaps also bring up how the lessons learned from OSS will be applying to Open Data in the future? and how businesses should be structuring their data with that in mind?
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