| 7:30 am - 4:30 pm | Registration Open |
| 9:00 am - 9:50 am | Keynote:
Oracle Makes Linux Unbreakable and Takes the Fear Out of Clustering |
| | In this session, Rene Bonvanie will demonstrate how Oracle's breakthrough technology Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) running on Linux, makes Linux Unbreakable and ready for your data center. Find out more about Oracle’s partnership with Red Hat and recent open source code projects by clicking here. Rene Bonvanie
Vice President of Oracle9i Marketing, Oracle Corporation |
| 10:00 am - 10:50 am | Apache : An Enterprise-Level Server (Track 1) |
| This talk will introduce the Apache web server running on Linux as a critical piece of enterprise-level web infrastructure. The presentation will focus on the following characteristics of the server: Performance, Stability, Integration capabilities, Standards compliance, Security and Management. Daniel Lopez Ridruejo
Senior Developer, Instant802 Networks |
| 10:00 am - 10:50 am | The Virtual Environment - Where Does Linux Fit?
(Track 2) |
| | Increasingly organizations are deploying multi-system configurations (sometimes called grids, farms or clusters) to provide performance, scalability, and reliability beyond that possible with a single system. What are the categories of software that make up the virtual environment and where does Linux and other open source software play in the virtual world. In his presentation, speaker Dan Kusnetzky of IDC leverages knowledge gained from 300,000 user surveys conducted each year. Dan Kusnetzky
Vice President, System Software Research, IDC |
| 10:00 am - 10:50 am | Enterprise-Ready Linux on the Mainframe: The Path to Success(Track 3) |
| How can you successfully implement Linux on the mainframe? What are the best practices? What should you avoid? This session will focus on CA's own implementation of mission-critical applications on Linux on the mainframe, as well as their customers - detailing the real-world benefits and the lessons learned. Topics include security, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, performance considerations and integration with mainframe data and applications. Sam Greenblatt
SVP, Computer Associates |
| 10:00 am - 10:50 am | The Linux Factor: How Linux and Friends will Reshape Application Management by 2005 (Track 4) |
| Today Linux is dominating the Web server market. Tomorrow it will own a large share of the application server market with software giants IBM and BEA supporting Linux with their applications. This trend combined with other infrastructure trends of blade computing and web services will break the application management mold. With applications being the lifeblood of online business services, IT managers must understand these changes and adapt to them. This session: previews what tomorrow's Linux-based application environment will look like, discusses what capabilities IT will need to manage it, and outlines the current and planned vendor solutions. Jasmine Noel
Founder & Principal, JNoel Associates |
| 11:00 am | Expo Hall Opens |
| 11:00 am - 11:50 am | Rethinking the Linux Distribution: Linux as Platform, Not Product (Track 1) |
| Linux is rapidly emerging as the platform of choice for a wide variety of value-added products and services, including server appliances, managed services, and specialized client devices. Traditionally, a company building such a product or service has needed to, in essence, build its own custom Linux platform. While the open source nature of Linux allows such companies to base their custom platforms on an existing Linux distribution, this approach nonetheless incurs a very high cost both in dollars and in lost focus on core competencies. In this talk, Ian will discuss the problems of the "do-it-yourself" approach to Linux as a platform and address their root cause, the product-oriented nature of traditional Linux distributions. He will then explore alternatives to the distribution model and discuss how the current model will constrain the future of Linux as a platform. Ian Murdock
co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer
Progeny |
| 11:00 am - 11:50 am | Linux Clusters and Open Source Software in the Life Sciences (Track 2) |
| The co-evolution of commodity PC hardware and open source software, Linux in particular, has generated a new computational tool for the life scientist--Linux clusters. Running predominantly open source software, this new breed of supercomputers offers superior price/performance compared to other platforms. The lure of cheap cycles and configurable, free software is too good to resist and cluster solutions have been implemented for bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, and cheminformatics research in academic as well as biotech and pharmaceutical settings. This presentation will cover the present and survey the future of high performance computing, Linux clusters, and open source software in life science research. Glenn Otero
Ph.D., Founder and Principal, Linux Prophet
a bioinformatics consultancy |
| 11:00 am - 11:50 am | The Linux Standard Base - Changing Everything You Think About Linux
(Track 3) |
| | The fastest growing operating system in the world is Linux. While this is in large part due to Linux's many technical and economic merits, its success is primarily due to the openness of the source code. This openness is also one of Linux's weak points. The problem is that since the code is so easily available and malleable anyone can and everyone does make minor, but inconvenient, change the base system. This has led to the creation of seemingly innumerable version of Linux distributions and an equal number of headaches for application software developers and system administrators. The Free Standards Group was created to tackle this problem of variation at Linux's foundation. By bridging the needs of both the Free and Open Source Development Community with those of the IT industry, The Free Standards Group has been extremely successful. The group’s most notable success has been the creation and release and immediate adoption of the Linux Standards Base (LSB) v1.2 in June of this year. The LSB standardizes the base foundation of a Linux system, allowing for the ultimate portability of applications across confirming runtime environments. However the LSB is to be more than a written specification. It includes test suites, a sample implementation, build environment, and a guide for developers of both Linux operating system distributions and Linux based applications. The release and adoption of the LSB 1.2 is having a great impact on the growing Linux market. In this session you will learn about the positive impacts Linux standards will have; how Linux developers and industry leaders have collectively used open source methodologies to create Linux standards; and how your company can both benefit from and influence current and future versions of the standards. The LSB will change everything you ever knew about Linux. Scott McNeil
Executive Director, Free Standards Group |
| 11:00 am - 11:50 am | Linux in Business: Answering Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
(Track 4) |
| | People often have questions and concerns about using Open Source software in business. This session will attempt to strip away the common misconceptions and fears that often surround the notion of Linux in business. It will also discuss some of the unsung business advantages of using Open Source over closed proprietary solutions. Attendees will gain the background to intelligently evaluate possible Linux solutions without being burdened with the misconceptions and fears that sometime surround the notion of Open Source. People who are new to Linux, as well as business people seeking to evaluate Open Source solutions, can greatly benefit from this session. Russell Pavlicek
Independent Consultant |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | The Challenge of Linux Education for IT Professionals
(Track 2) |
| | With the emergence of Linux into the computing mainstream, integrators and end users are confronted with the challenge of finding and hiring appropriate staff. This presentation will address the current state of Linux professional education and certification, as it addresses the needs of enterprise end-users. As Linux demand grows, how will the education system move from its traditional developer orientation to one that also addresses administration and integration issues? Evan Leibovitch
President and co-founder, Linux Professional Institute |
| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | PANEL: Integrating Linux Into the Enterprise
(Track 1) |
| | At one time, technological deficiencies, as well as a lack of key features and limited support from leading vendors, restricted Linux’s role in the enterprise to Web serving and other network utilities. However, Linux solution and services providers have made great strides to improve the scalability and robustness of Linux distributions to support greater network and server workloads more reliably. As a result, Linux is now increasingly being inserted into the application and data server tiers of enterprise IT infrastructures. This panel will discuss how the integration of Linux into the enterprise can most effectively be accomplished. Moderator:
Brian Proffitt
Jupitermedia
Panelists:
Christian Gross
Software Engineering Consultant
Michael Mitsch
NEC Solutions (America) Inc.
Dan Orzech
CIO Information Network
Peder Ulander
Sun Microsystems
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| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | Open Source Development Lab Data Center Linux (DCL) for OLTP and DSS
(Track 3) |
| | This session will present the Open Source Development Lab’s (OSDL) Data Center Linux Technology Roadmap developed to support the critical requirements of OLTP and DSS workloads. The presentation will identify the requirements for these applications and outline the architecture and specifications that define a Data Center capable Linux OS. Current status and content of the roadmap will be presented along with the process for development, test and integration of DCL features into major distributions. Timothy Witham
Lab Director, Open Source Development Lab
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| 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm | Migrating C/C++ Applications from Unix to Linux (Track 4) |
| Many enterprise systems, especially those in the financial services and telecom verticals, are written in C++ and run on proprietary Unix operating systems. This session identifies the technical and business reasons for migrating from Unix to Linux, and explains issues likely to be encountered when migrating Unix code to Linux. Linux will be compared to and contrasted with Solaris, HPUX and AIX. Since manual migration with only the compiler is resource intensive and subject to human error, migration assessment using automated tools will be demonstrated. Shel Travis
Vice President of Research, MigraTEC |
| 2:30 pm | Expo Hall Closes |
| 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm | Keynote: The Ten Reasons Why You Think You Can Not Use Linux in the Enterprise |
| As Jon "maddog" Hall has been going around the world talking about Linux and Open Source, he kept hearing the same ten reasons why people felt they could not use Linux in the enterprise. He soon realized that those ten reasons were either incorrect from the beginning, or (over time) they had lost the force of their argument. In this lively keynote session, attendees will hear the ten reasons that have traditionally given why you cannot use Linux in the enterprise to save time and money, and hear them answered one by one. At the end of the talk the audience will be invited to offer their own reasons, and have them refuted, as well. Jon "maddog" Hall
Executive Director, Linux International |
| 3:30 pm - 4:20 pm | GNOME: The Open Source Desktop and Accessibility(Track 3) |
| As federal regulations in Section 508 concerning universal accessibility of computer applications take effect, government and enterprise IT managers and their vendors have another reason to look at the open source desktop GNOME. Many proprietary accessibility tools currently on the market are workarounds that are very labor intensive in making documents and websites accessible and compliant to Section 508. The goal of the GNOME Accessibility Project is to ensure that people with disabilities can easily use the standard GNOME desktop user-environment, making compliance with Section 508 simpler for government and enterprise IT managers. Timothy Ney
Executive Director, GNOME Foundation |
| 3:30 pm - 4:20 pm | Web Services: The Killer Application for Open Source(Track 1) |
| It is said that every technology needs a killer application. It seems that Open Source has found its killer application and it is called Web Services. The purpose of this session is to explain Web Services and how Open Source can be used to build the "killer" Web Service. What will be focused on in this session is security, privacy, protection of IP (Intellectual Property), and what to expect in the future. Also outlined are some of the more popular Open Source Web Service platforms. Christian Gross
Software Engineering Consultant / Trainer |
| 3:30 pm - 4:20 pm | High-Performance End-to-End Computing Using Linux |
| This presentation addresses the use of Open Source software at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), which is charged with the study and forecast of “ocean weather” (e.g. sea surface and below) for the U.S. Navy. NAVOCEANO is an intensive user of high-end computing power, with a one petabyte (1000 terabytes) data warehouse, three world-class supercomputers on-site and a large number of field data collection systems, some of which collect 300Gb of data per run. All of the collected and historical data is processed, often in real-time, to produce summary and forecast data used by the US Navy and other government agencies. Field collection platforms and other data processing systems that have recently been moved to a Linux software platform have seen dramatic cost savings of up to 90%. In this talk, Olliance, a strategic consultancy working with the Navy, describes why Open Source was chosen, how it is used, its benefits and ROI estimates, as well as development and operational advantages. The speaker will present recommendations for the use of Open Source in high-performance environments and generalize the findings for a business audience. Chris Maresca
Senior Partner, Olliance Group, LLC |
| 3:30 pm - 4:20 pm | Linux Database Clusters for High Performance Computing (Track 2) |
| While High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clusters based on Beowolf are well known, the implementation of Linux clusters as databases are widely implemented but not as visible. Their application ranges from classical data warehouse deployments or SAP environments, to fraud detection and large-scale OLTP systems. The Linux database clusters can be implemented quickly, keeping the price point much lower range than any comparable solution. The speaker will present the concepts of Linux database clusters with DB2, and cluster interconnects based on InfiniBand. He will also discuss customer deployment experiences with the database clusters, and outline the architecture of a typical Linux cluster deployment. Boris C. Bialek
Manager, DB2 Strategic Technologies, IBM Toronto Lab |
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