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Keynote Speaker Update
Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Added to Congress Keynote Roster
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Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich will present the Friday morning Keynote address at this year's World Congress. His session, Eclipse: Accelerating OSGi Adoption, will focus on providing an overview of how open source and open standards intersect and how commercial interests can leverage the opportunities they create. Mikes talk will address how Eclipse and OSGi have interacted to the benefit of both and will look to a future where open source and open standards co-operate for the benefit of the industry.
Craig Hayman, Vice President of Solutions Development for the IBM Software Group will present the Thursday morning Keynote Address: The Benefits of an Open Service Oriented Architecture in the Enterprise. Improved return on investment (ROI), faster time to market or deployment, better reuse, service location transparency, better scalability, and more maintainability are among the many benefits of an open, standardized Service Oriented Architecture. Hear why these are essential to the modern, on-demand Enterprise, and the importance of bringing these benefits and more to them with technologies standardized by the OSGi Alliance.
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Don't miss this year's lineup of worldwide open source experts discussing:
Business Implications of Open Source OSGi Implementation
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OSGi specifications have traditionally defined a Java based service platform for service delivery and deployment in multiple environments. Recent developments point to another model - as demonstrated by the Equinox, OSCAR, Knoplerfish implementations to name a few. Our experts explore the business implications of this trend, including:
- Will an Open Source OSGi implementation movement disrupt today's business models?
- Who is threatened, who gains?
- Is an Open Source OSGi implementation model sustainable in the long term?
Moderator: BJ Hargrave, OSGi Alliance Fellow & CTO; Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Panelists: Richard S. Hall, Ph.D., Invited Researcher, OSGi Alliance and OSCAR Participant
Jeff McAffer, Project Leader, Eclipse Equinox
Christer Larsen, CEO, Gatespace Telematics and Knoplerfish
Enrique Rodriguez, Product Architect, Apache Software Foundation
Deepak Kamlani, President, Global Inventures
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation
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2005 World Congress Features Business Value of R4 Release
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The 4th Annual World Congress will highlight how the new R4 release delivers business value to the Mobile, Telematics, and Digital Home markets. In addition it will focus on the latest products, end-to-end architectures, and software solutions across multiple environments.
Featuring plenary sessions, breakouts, and Town Hall panels, the Congress will highlight:
- The spread of OSGi technology around the world
- How OSGi User Forums are proliferating OSGi-based solutions in their regions
- Perspectives on the business models driving the adoption of OSGi technology
- First hand insights into how organizations are using OSGi technology to develop incremental revenue and profit pools.
Previous OSGi Alliance events have drawn hundreds of senior executives, developers, and users from 70 countries around the world.
Visit www.OSGiCongress.com for the full agenda.
