Jane Gilson, a Group Product Manager in Microsoft's embedded division, will participate in a panel discussion entitled "Mobile Open Source: Opportunities, Markets, and Obstacles". The session will explore various implications of the blurring of the lines between "enterprise" and "embedded" that is accompanying the growing use of mobile (and often insecure) embedded devices "at the edge of the network" -- a market that is heavily in flux, and one that the traditional enterprise cannot afford to ignore, according to the session's published description. Other participants in the session will include Madeline Duva of PalmSource, Kelly Herrell of MontaVista, and John Fanelli of Wind River.
Event organizer Matt Asay said, "The 'Mobile Open Source' session should be particularly interesting, given its inclusion of perspectives from pureplay open source shops (MontaVista), closed source vendors (Microsoft), and two that are currently working through the transition from closed-to-open source (Wind River and PalmSource)."
Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, will present a session on the topic, "Open Source and Microsoft." While details of Matsusow's talk have not been announced, Matusow's presentation is likely to focus on Microsoft's
Shared Source initiative, first
announced in 2001. Although the initial release of Windows CE shared source was limited in scope and applicability, the
full release of Windows CE 5.0 last year greatly increased the amount of source available and granted permission to redistribute modified code commercially, thereby eliminating the main constraints that had prevented companies from using modified Windows CE code within their products.
More information on the OSBC is available from the conference
website.
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