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Business Track
Preface
Open Source is a topic that is demanding the attention of senior executives.
On June 24 and 25th, the University of St. Thomas and The Open Group
will host a standards workshop in Minneapolis for senior business
executives. This one-and-a-half day standards conference for senior executives,
comprising four panels, will feature an introduction of the issues
and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers
the
audience. The aim is to capture and publish the issues that are discussed
in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open
Source. The panel sessions cover each of the Business, Technical, Legal,
and
Social/Ethical Challenges Ahead.
Business Panel Objective
The Business Panel, moderated by Graham Bird, VP Marketing, The Open
Group will seek to understand and capture the following about Open
Source:
- Is Open Source acceptable from a business perspective?
- What are
the issues that must be resolved in order to support enterprise deployment?
For a platform? For applications? For mission critical
systems?
The Business Panel will answer moderated and ad hoc questions concerning
the overall technical position, its fitness for purpose, and impact
on the technical environment and its management. Additional questions
will
evolve around:
- Understanding what the ‘big issues’ are in the business
context.
- Understanding the commercial ramifications.
- Understanding the impact
of open source on business processes and practices.
- Understanding how
Open Source can help us achieve the Boundaryless Information Flow
vision.
Business Panelists
The Business Panelists are:
- Andrew Aitken, Olliance Group
- Loren Sinning, Cargill
- Stormy Peters, Hewlett Packard
- Carolyn A. Kahn, The MITRE Corporation
Business Panel Agenda
The Business Panel session will be approximately 2 hours in length
and follow the agenda below.
- Introduction by Graham Bird (5 minutes max). Graham will
set some background, introduce the format, and then introduce the panelists
in general.
- Introduction of each panel member and their opening positions (10
minutes each) (50 minutes). Each panelist will come up and introduce
themselves
further and then present a few slides that represent their fundamental
position on the main business issues of Open Source:
- Is Open Source acceptable from a business perspective?
- What
are the issues that must be resolved in order to support enterprise
deployment?
- For a platform?
- For applications?
- For mission critical systems?
- What big changes in Open Source are coming, e.g. vertical
applications?
- Panel session with mixture of moderated questions
and questions from audience (60 minutes). Graham and the audience
will ask questions
directed at all
or specific panelists, including questions such as:
- What
success stories can you relay that demonstrate the capabilities
of open source in the enterprise?
- Many questions surround whether
the Open Source model will truly result in better applications,
lower costs.
What is required
to
make this happen?
- In your experience what is needed
to effectively use Open Source? What new positions are needed,
or
roles? How
about processes?
- What relationship do you think there
is between Open Source and open standards? How important is it
that
Open Source conforms
to
some stated
open standard?
- How do you see requirements management
working in the Open Source model?
- How does open source business
as a whole?
- Would each of you tell us what two Open Source “products” will
dominate the next two years?
- Where do you see Open
Source being most applicable? Application layer, middleware layer,
infrastructure
layer, or operating
system layer?
- Do you see the Open Source model working
with deliverables other than software? For example business models,
architectures, …?
- What role do you see Open Source playing
in Boundaryless Information Flow? For information on Boundaryless
Information
Flow see http://www.opengroup.org/cio/iop.
- Thanks and close of Panel Session (5 minutes max)
- Summary readout
and discussion (30 minutes on day 2). Where Graham will summarize
the key points and observations from
the sessions. Provoke a discussion on next steps between the panelists and
audience.
Business Panel Participant Requirements
Panelists should send presentations for their specific introduction
and their opening positions. The presentations should be designed for
5 to
10 minutes. It is recommended that at least 4 slides be provided:
- Introduction
slide for the panelist
- Slide commenting on ‘Is Open Source acceptable
from a business perspective?’
- Slide(s) commenting
on ‘What are the issues that must be resolved
in order to support enterprise deployment?
- For a platform?
- For applications?
- For mission critical systems?’
- Slide commenting on ‘What big changes in Open Source are
coming, e.g. vertical applications,?’
All the presentations will be preloaded in a master presentation
and run from a single PC.
We also encourage the positions be supported by a short
paper that would be published along with post meeting
documents, of course with
full attribution
to the contributor.
All panelists are encouraged to attend
the full event, especially to participate in the summary discussion
on
the second day.
Finally we encourage panelists to send questions that
you think should be brought forth. There is no guarantee
that
these questions
will
be used, but they will be given full consideration.
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