[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
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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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