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Open Source movement has gained significant momentum over the last few years. Using open source technologies, companies and governments are cutting costs, gaining flexibility, and discovering powerful new sources of business value. Success stories from leading enterprises and eBusiness companies, like Amazon.com, E-Trade, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Verizon have lead a major push for Open Source.

While Open Source movement provides powerful tools and flexibility to software developers, it also brings with it the challenges of complying with open source licensing, limited support options, and issues related to co-existence of proprietary and open source software.

The business model for building a profitable open source organization is very different from proprietary software.

We are proud to have a very distinguished panel of speakers to discuss this topic from a variety of perspectives. How to develop a business care for open source software business? What are the challenges and resources available for open source deployment, especially when it co-exists with proprietary software? What are the latest developments in the open source movement?

This will be the Orange County T-SIG's first event. Come participate in the discussion as well. This promises to be a great event.

Panelists:

• Mark Vincent, Founder and CTO of MindCentric
• Matt Asay, Chair of the Open Source Review Board at Novell, Inc.
• Steve Shreeve, Co-founder and CEO of Medsphere, Inc.
• Winston Damarillo, Founder and CEO of GlueCode, Inc.
  

Moderator:

• Bernie Cowens, Vice President of Worldwide IS and of Security Services at Rainbow Technologies.