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 San Francisco (CA) - At the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco on
April 8-10, 2009, a meeting of the great OS minds will take place.
There, sponsored by Intel, will be assembled together the Linux
Foundation, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft representatives. For the
first time ever, the three-way group will sit down at a single table to
debate and discuss the future not only of their respective operating
systems, but also the OS industry in general. What will come from such
a meeting? I truly believe that only God knows.
The sit-down meeting will be moderated by Jim Zemlim, Executive
Director at the Linux Foundation. It will include Microsoft's Sam
Ramji, Director of Platform Strategy, and Sun's Vice President of
Developer and Community Marketing, Ian Murdock. But where's Apple?
Apple currently holds around 10% of the global OS marketshare,
and yet they are notably absent from these talks. Surely the UNIX-based
OS X maker has something to contribute? The gathering is by invitation
only, so maybe they weren't invited. Or, maybe they were but have
chosen not to go -- deciding instead to do their own thing (which would
not be out of character for Apple).
Also on the agenda is IDC Program Vice President, Systems Software, Al
Gillen, who will share new findings on operating system forecasts and
who will give a talk about the economic downturn and its impact on the
global OS markets.
Edward Screven, Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, will deliver the
opening day keynote with the company's business model centered around
Linux.
The Host sponsor, Intel, will send Imad Sousou, Director of the Open
Source Technology Center, who will speak about Mobile Linux and its
Moblin State of the Union keynote and demonstration.
A panel comprised of Jono Bacon (community manager at Ubuntu), James
Bottomley (kernel developer at Novell), Joe Brockmeier (community
manager at openSUSE), Dan Frye (VP of open systems development at IBM's
Systems and Technology Group) and Karsten Wade (of the Fedora Project),
will discuss community contributions to the OS movement.
LWN.net's editor-in-chief, Jon Corbet, along with additional panelists
(comprised of Greg Kroah-Hartmann, Andrew Morton and Keith Packard of
Ted Ts'o), will discuss the Linux kernel and what's coming next.
The event is an invitation-only gathering of the brightest minds in
Linux, including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers,
ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations. This
is the only conference designed to bring together such disparate
business models, DRM beliefs, closed and open source initiatives, and
free and fee-based models, into a single forum for such a discussion.
As the sponsor, it seems that only Intel could go to San Francisco.
The event will be co-located with the CELF Embedded Linux Conference,
along with the Linux Storage and Filesystem workshop. For more
information on this, see Collaboration-summit.
For more information on the Linux Foundation, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft OS meeting, see the Linux Foundation's press release. This is the third annual summit. See highlights from 2007 and 2008.
In 2007, the primary focus was on drivers. In 2008 the drive theme was
extended, but it was also about Internet compliance as well as
virtualization. |
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