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Interoperability Between Open Source and Proprietary Systems as a Driver of Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Many enterprises continue to be skeptical of open source software, especially open source business applications. In reality, most open source applications have robust communities and for-profit businesses supporting them, and provide all or most of the functionality of their proprietary counterparts. In some cases, the open source products and support are demonstrably better, yet the skepticism continues. Many OS vendors use free downloads, SaaS, fixed-price support contracts and other techniques to get a foot in the door, and they all depend on interoperability and integration for their success. The panel, organized by the Open Solutions Alliance, will discuss their marketing techniques, and the real world issues of interoperability between open source applications, and between open source and proprietary applications. Each of the three panelists will present for 15-20 minutes. For the final 20-30 minutes of the session, the panel will take questions from the audience.

 

2nd OCTOBER 2009 - 11.00-12.30 - EUROSITES GEORGE V, PARIS

 

09.00-10.30	OPEN WORLD FORUM OPENING KEYNOTES: with Karel De Vriendt, Alix Cazenave, Mark Shuttleworth, etc.
11.00-11.20	Eric Soares, Ingres
	Eric Soares became Vice President Southern Europe at IngresCorp. in 2006. He is responsible for the expansion of Ingres presence on the French, Italian and Spanish markets, by developing strategic partnerships and new applications based on the Open Source model and thus providing Ingres customers with professional services of quality while significantly reducing their project costs. Eric started his career in 1987 at the Gaz de France research centre as a Systems Engineer working on Mainframes IBM environments. Two years later, he managed a team of engineers at Télésystèmes, a French software engineering company and a branch of France Télécom. He joined Novell in 1992, where he held several sales middle management positions. After having been responsible for European partnerships, he held for six years several management positions and became Director of the French and Southern Europe region during for 4 years. In 2003, Eric managed for three years the French subsidiary at Critical Path, a Mobile messaging solutions software provider. Eric holds a degree in IT engineering as well as an Executive MBA from HEC.
11.20-11.40	Josep Mitja, Open Bravo
	Chief Operating Officer Josep Mitjà is in charge of Openbravo's Product Strategy and Business Development unit. Among many activities in Josep’s wide range of responsibilities, he leads the definition and execution of the product strategy and marketing approach, drives business development activities, builds corporate alliances and is in charge of defining the international growth model, Openbravo’s web presence, as well as Openbravo’s marketing and communication initiatives and IT & Systems department. Lastly, Josep is also an Openbravo Board member and a Board member of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), which Openbravo co-founded. Prior to joining Openbravo, Josep was a principal with DiamondCluster International (now Oliver Wyman), where he worked in more than 10 countries across three continents advising senior executives in the high tech industry. Josep holds an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, and from MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. Previously he graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).
11.40-12.00	Yves de Montcheuil, Talend
	Yves de Montcheuil is the Vice President of Marketing at Talend, the recognized leader in open source data integration.  He has over 15 years of product management and product marketing experience with various US and European software companies, including Sunopsis, Empirix, Cyrano and SDP/Sybase.  Yves holds a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supelec in France; he has presented at numerous industry events and conferences and has authored several published articles.
12.00-12.30	Questions from the audience
	For the final 20-30 minutes of the session, the panel will take questions from the audience.
12.30-14.00	Cocktail-Lunch and networking

 

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