14 DAY TRIAL // The 5th annual Linux on Wall Street conference takes place today, Monday, April 23 at the Roosevelt Hotel based in the famous Manhattan district of New York city. The conference will focus on the role that Linux, and the open source solutions in general, play or could play for the financial institutions or companies on the financial market. The conference program starts at 8:00 am with the registration and coffee service in the Technology Showcase Exhibit Area, and ends at 5:00 pm with a reception hosted by Intel. The entrance to the exhibit hall is free and does not require registration.
According to linux.com the conference will gather representatives of important players from the open source community such as Red Hat, Novell and IT managers but also businesses people who actually represent almost 70% of the conference goers.
The inaugural is made by Tim Burke, Director Emerging Technologies with Red Hat, and John O'Hara, Distinguished Engineer IB Architecture, who will debate on the "Open Source Solutions for the Realtime Messaging Data Crunch" subject, presenting the open source solutions proposed by Red Hat against the numerous serious problems encountered in the messaging data field. The closing panel, "Selling Open Source to the CIO", will take a closer look at the street's CIO's perception regarding the benefits and pitfalls of the open source deployment. Raven Zachary, Open Source Research Director for The 451 Group together with other panel members from Oracle, Intel or Jefferies & Company will share their opinions regarding the important targets that should be paid attention to in order to please the CIOs' in the financial market discontents regarding Linux.
Larry Ryan, Director Worldwide Financial Services and Phill Robb, Engineering Section Manager in the Open Source and Linux Organization, with Hewlett-Packard, will talk over the importance of an appropriate management of the open source software and the pitfalls related to the use of the open source products in a panel titled "Open Source Governance: Recognizing and Dealing with the Unique Risks Associated with Free Software".
Organizers expect a better understanding of the open source concept and how it can be developed inside the Wall Street world and they are pleased with each year's success acquired by this conference.