[KLUG Advocacy] ADVISORY/The O'Reilly Debate: Red Hat and Microsoft to Square Off

Raymond McLaughlin advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:38:57 +0000


ADVISORY/The O'Reilly Debate: Red Hat and Microsoft to Square Off
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ADVISORY/The O'Reilly Debate: Red Hat and 
Microsoft to Square Off 
 
    
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Event:          The O'Reilly Debate: Red Hat and Microsoft to 
                Square Off 
Location:       The O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Sheraton San 
                Diego Hotel and Marina, Grande Ballrooms ABC 
Webcast:        http://www.technetcast.com/ or http://www.ddj.com/ 
                (one hour following the event) 
Day/Time:       Thursday, July 26, 8:45-10:15 a.m. PDT 
   The highly anticipated showdown between Red Hat CTO Michael 
Tiemann and Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie, "Shared 
Source vs. Open Source," will take place in the form of speeches and a 
wide-open panel discussion where they will square off against one 
another. 
   Red Hat is the undisputed leader in open source solutions. 
According to IDC, Linux was the fastest-growing server operating 
environment in 1998, 1999, and 2000, and Linux shipments increased 
more than 24 percent from 1999-2000, capturing 27 percent of the 
server operating system market and outpacing even Microsoft's growth 
during that period. A 2001 Netcraft survey also found that Linux is 
used for more public Web servers than any other non-Windows operating 
 system--29 percent in total. 
   The speeches from Tiemann and Mundie will be followed by a panel 
discussion with additional experts on intellectual property and the 
software industry, moderated by Tim O'Reilly. The event will take 
place on Thursday, July 26 from 8:45-10:15 a.m. at the O'Reilly Open 
Source Convention and Perl Conference 5 at the Sheraton San Diego 
Hotel and Marina, Grande Ballrooms ABC. 
   Debate Web cast: 
   A Web cast of the debate will be posted approximately one hour 
after the event at http://www.technetcast.com/ or http://www.ddj.com/. 
   Additional Red Hat Speaking Events at O'Reilly: 
   Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann will also be delivering a separate 
keynote speech, titled "Big Hairy Problems: Open Source Challenges in 
the Enterprise," on Friday, July 27, from 8:45-10:15 a.m. in the 
Grande Ballrooms ABC at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. 
Additional Red Hat presenters at the show include: 
   --Randy Ray, Web Engineer 
   --Paul Weinstein, Internet Systems Virtuoso 
   --Permaine Cheung, Database Engineer 
   For details on a these presentations, please visit 
http://www.redhat.com/about/events/speakers.html 
    --30--jb/bos* 
    CONTACT: Schwartz Communications for Red Hat 
             781-684-0770 
           redhat@schwartz-pr.com 
             or 
             Red Hat, Inc. 
             Melissa London 
             919-547-0012 
             melissa@redhat.com 
 
 
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