* LinuxWorld hopes to burn away the San Francisco fog
Just as the fog is expected to roll into San Francisco, as usual, LinuxWorld Expo will roll into the City by the Bay. The eighth-annual show – which runs twice a year on the East and West coasts – will open its doors next week. The show will run Aug. 2-5 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco – my favorite venue for the event.
Just as the fog is expected to roll into San Francisco, as usual, LinuxWorld Expo will roll into the City by the Bay. The eighth-annual show – which runs twice a year on the East and West coasts – will open its doors next week. The show will run Aug. 2-5 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco – my favorite venue for the event.
The usual parade of large IT hardware and software vendors (IBM, HP, Sun, Dell and Intel among them) will be mixing with the grass-rootsy open source organizations, such as the Linux Terminal Server Project and the Free Software Foundation, as well as quirky start-ups and assorted beard-wearing, pony-tailed Linux guru-types.
Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik makes the first keynote presentation on Tuesday, Aug. 3. He is followed by Martin Fink, vice president for Linux at HP, and Michael Steven Rocha, executive vice president for Linux at Oracle.
Wednesday’s keynotes will be presented by Nick Donofrio, IBM senior vice president of technology and manufacturing; and Alfred Chuang, founder, chairman and CEO of BEA Systems.
Also speaking at the show will be several IT executives with real-world Linux experience from a variety of corporations and institutions, including DreamWorks, Indiana University, the University of Oregon, eBay, Sprint and Cisco.
One theme that seems to be building for the show is desktop Linux, as Dell and HP are expected to unveil new products for deploying Linux as a desktop PC alternative to Windows. There will be nine sessions at the show dedicated to Linux desktop strategies and technology development, as well as a Desktop Linux Pavilion, where new open source desktop technologies will be on display.
After San Francisco, LinuxWorld Expo moves to its new East Coast venue at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston – my hometown – in February 2005. Hopefully, they’ll have the city cleaned up from the Democratic National Convention by then.
