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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 10, 1999
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CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com,
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http://www.oreilly.com
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SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS BUSINESS CASE FOR OPEN SOURCE
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Developers and corporate users agree that Open Source is good for business
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:05:34 -0800 (PST)<BR>
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SEBASTOPOL, CA--Open Source software has reached critical mass. Long
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the favorite software development model of the programming elite, Open
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Source(TM) is now a credible technology option for any business. "Open
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Source is a business decision that makes sense" was the consensus of
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the nearly 50 leading Open Source developers and businesspeople who
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gathered on March 5 for the Second Open Source and Community Licensing
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Summit hosted by O'Reilly & Associates. A list of participants is
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below, and bios of most participants are at
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http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/press/oss_bios.html.
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At O'Reilly's first Open Source Summit, in April 1998, participants--
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all major free software developers--adopted the term "Open Source." The
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focus was on spreading the word about the importance and value of
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open-source software beyond the developer community. Since then, the
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spectacular growth of Linux, IBM's incorporation of the Apache Web
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Server into its WebSphere product, and the success of new companies
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based on open-source technology (such as Sendmail, Inc., ActiveState
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Tool Corp. and Scriptics Corp.) have caused the business world to sit
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up and take notice of Open Source.
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This year, Summit participants addressed the business and technology
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issues that face the Open Source community as it tackles the challenges
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of success. On the business front, there was a consensus among the
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developers and corporate representatives that use of open-source
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software is strong and growing. Customer demand is driving
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corporations' adoption of Linux and other open-source software. Summit
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participants challenged industry analysts to provide their corporate
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clients with data on the benefits and Total Cost of Ownership of
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open-source solutions.
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In the discussion of technical issues, the group took concrete steps
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towards developing a shared vision of best practices for open-source
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development. Discussion centered around the question, "What is the
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science of Open Source development?" Participants agreed that it is
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appropriate and desirable for businesses to handle support issues as
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open-source technologies scale. This is happening already in the Linux
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arena, where the Linux distributors are handling bug tracking. The
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group also debated the merits of tools to support the distributed,
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collaborative development process at the heart of Open Source, such as
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CVS (Code Versioning System) and bug tracking systems. Participants
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committed to working together to promote the benefits of Open Source
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software and support the Open Source developer community.
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Host Tim O'Reilly, President and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, noted,
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"Today was the first time that people from the developer community and
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the corporate world sat down together to hash out how Open Source can
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work for both of them. Before the Summit, we weren't sure how far their
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interests could mesh, but we found a surprising degree of
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compatibility. Open Source has support on both sides of the fence that
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should build the momentum of the last year and increase its use and
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influence."
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# # #
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Open Source is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative
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OPEN SOURCE AND COMMUNITY LICENSING SUMMIT ATTENDEES & AFFILIATIONS
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* Jeremy Allison, key Samba developer, SGI
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* Eric Allman, creator of sendmail; Sendmail, Inc.
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* Ken Arnold, Jini, Sun Microsystems
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* Larry Augustin, VA Research
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* Fred Baker, IETF
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* Mitchell Baker, Netscape Communications
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* Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Group; O'Reilly & Associates
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* Steve Burbeck, IBM
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* Steve Byrne, leader of the Blackdown Java Porting Team (Java-Linux Port)
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* Wayne Caccamo, Hewlett Packard
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* Ken Coar, IBM, Apache Group member
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* David Conrad, Internet Software Consortium
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* L. Peter Deutsch, principal author of Ghostscript; Aladdin
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* David Fair, Intel
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* Roy Fielding, member of the Apache Group
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* John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
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* Dick Hardt, ActiveState
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* Chris Hernberger, Linux Developement Studio
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* Alexandre Julliard, WINE project, Corel
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* Tom Kalil, White House National Economic Council
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* Charles Marker, SGI
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* Kirk McKusick , BSD
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* Larry McVoy, Bitmover
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* Cliff Miller, Pacific Hi Tech
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* Sam Ockman, Penguin Computing
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* Greg Olson, Sendmail, Inc.
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* Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly & Associates
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* John Ousterhout, CEO, Scriptics Corp. and creator of the Tcl language
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* Sameer Parekh, C2Net Software, Inc.; member of the Apache Group
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* Jamshed Patel, Oracle
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* Chris Peterson, Foresight Institute
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* Eric Raymond, Open Source Initiative
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* Chip Salzenberg, Open Source Initiative
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* Ean Schessler, Debian; Software in the Public Interest
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* Janet Smith , Informix
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* Drew Spencer, Caldera
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* Gavriel State, WINE project, Corel
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* Jon Stevens, member of the Java-Apache Project
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* Michael Tiemann, Cygnus Solutions
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* Marc Torres, S.u.S.E.
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* Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
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* Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python language
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* Larry Wall, creator of the Perl language
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* Tim Wilkenson, Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.
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* Jamie Zawinski, mozilla.org, Netscape Communications
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