O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17-20 October, 2005

Session
Open Source Development with Oracle
Omar Tazi, Chief Open Source Evangelist, Oracle Corporation

Track: Products & Services
Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2005
Time: 16:50 - 17:35
Location: Seasons Room
Join Oracle Chief Open Source Evangelist Omar Tazi as he discusses Oracle's role and roadmap as a development and deployment platform as well as contributions to leading open source initiatives such as Apache, Eclipse and PHP.

The presentation will include
Impact of open source on enterprise development
How Oracle is leveraging industry standards, Hot-Pluggable architecture and open source to enhance developer productivity and simplify ease of use
Collaboration with Zend Technologies on Zend Core for Oracle for rapid PHP development
Move from LAMP environment to OPAL (Oracle, PHP, Apache, Linux) as users need higher performance, reliability and security.