O'Reilly Open Source Convention - August 1-5, 2005

Session
Win-Win: Promoting Open Source Success to Promote Customer Success
Dayne Medlyn, Technical Lead for the Linux Reference Architecture Program, Hewlett Packard

Track: Products & Services
Date: Thursday, August 4th, 2005
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm

Companies are looking for integrated solutions on which they can build successful business. Interest in building solutions on open source software is increasing at an accelerated pace leading to companies seeking help to establish open source environments on which they will build their business. HP listened. For the past several years HP has been working with the open dource community to develop and deliver solutions to address customer’s open source needs.
In this presentation, Hewlett-Packard’s Dayne Medlyn discusses how HP is participating in the open source community, promoting the success of open source projects, and delivering integrated, tested, and supported total solution stacks that help make customers successful. The key contents include an example of a delivered total solution stack and what was learned about how open source developers and the Open Source community can make it easier to achieve success with customers.
Referenced Open Source Technologies:

Linux
Java
Apache
MySQL
Tomcat
JBoss
OpenLDAP
Perl
Python
XDoclet
Ant
Axis
Hibernate
Eclipse