Open Source Business Models for Success
SVASE
and more give you the bottom line!
Network Meeting Center, Techmart Building
5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Thursday, February 5, 2004, 6:00 pm
Even if you've been in software for 30 years, the rules have changed!
Using Open Source code can save you and your customers enormous time
and money. At the same time, careless use can destroy your….
Funding
M&A opportunities
Sales to big corporate customers
Sales to the Government
D&O Insurance
...effectively shutting down your business. This all-star panel will
share their unique, battle-line perspectives on WINNING with Open
Source and tell you where, when and how to get the help you need to
succeed.
Come meet:
* Larry Augustin, Founder, VA Software
* Mårten Mickos, CEO, MySQL
* Larry Rosen, Attorney, Open Source Initiative
* Deborah Magid, Director, Strategic Alliances, IBM Venture
Capital
* Andrew Aitken, Founder, Olliance Group (consultants on open
source issues for commercial & government clients including Hewlett
Packard and the US Navy)
* David Kaefer, Director of Business Development for Intellectual
Property & Licensing, Microsoft
* Moderator: Brian Kelly, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
FREE EVENT ADMISSION: We'd like to hear about "SVASE Success Stories"
- ways SVASE has helped your business. If you have an SVASE Success
story you can describe in 30 seconds for the audience at this event,
we'll give you free admission! Call Laura Roden at 650 592 0421 at
least 48 hours before the event to secure your ticket. One free
ticket will be awarded per event.
PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Dinner)
Members - $35
Affiliates who advertise this event - $35
General Public - $49
WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to price listed above
All qualified press are invited to join us for an exclusive Q&A
session with the panelists from 6:30-7:00 pm; to request a press pass,
please contact Jim Lambert at SVAS...@yahoo.com.
Photography at this event provided courtesy of JOEL MOSES,
specializing in fast, flexible and cost effective Corporate
photography and videography: http://www.jmphoto.net.
To reserve an Exhibit Table, contact In...@svase.org, $500 Members,
$1000 Non-members, includes 2 tickets to the event and dinner.
If you go to nothing else in Silicon Valley this month, don't miss the
SVASE Main Event!