Commercial
Open Source for the Enterprise
Tue April 27th,
2010
Toronto, Ontario
Running your business in a tight and competitive
economy, you understand that your approach to enterprise applications can be
critical to the future of the organization. Using Open Source, often in
combination with Cloud Computing, promises dramatic cost savings and increase
in flexibility and responsiveness to business needs. Our session explores the
maturation of open source for commercial purposes and the steady increase in
its value; and proposes Enterprise Open Source as a “safe bet” at the dawn of
2010.
A 2008 Forrester Research survey
recorded that 58% of IT execs use open source for mission critical
applications, 79% within their applications infrastructure. While cost
advantage is obvious, fully 80% cite factors other than cost such as open
standards support, avoidance of vendor lock-in, ease of integration.
Join me and special guest Speaker
Larry Augustin as we explore Commercial Open Source and use of Open Source in
enterprise including cost and risk benefit comparison to proprietary
software. We’ll share perspectives and ideas and offer practical guidance .
Key areas of discussion include:
- A brief
overview of Commercial Open Source and its benefits;
- Application
Quality;
- Cloud Computing
and Open Source;
- Strategies to
dramatically lower costs and break vendor lock;
- Where to start
in assessing and mitigating risk associated with Commercial Open Source.
Join your peers to share innovation, ideas,
challenges and experiences, and get insight from market makers..
To confirm your attendance to this event, please click here. Admission is $50 (FREE to qualified IT executives and invited guests). Remember, seating is limited, so don't delay. I hope to see you there.
Best regards,
Mark Buchner
Executive Director
Toronto Users Group for Power Systems
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LOCATION:
Schulich School of Business
Private Dining Room
Executive Learning Centre
4700 Keele Street
(56 Fine Arts Road)
Toronto, ON
M3J 1P3
ITINERARY:
Registration & Breakfast
7:15 am - 8:30 am
Session
8:30 am – 10:00 am
Speaker:
Larry Augustin
CEO, SugarCRM
Larry is an Open Source pioneer, "angel investor", and advisor to early stage technology companies from Cupertino California. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Appcelerator, Compiere, DeviceVM, DotNetNuke, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho and SugarCRM.
One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000.
From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX) serving as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in December 1999.
Larry holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
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