Topic: Business
Do bloggers have an impact on customer support? How is Oracle impacting the current state of Novell and is Oracle going to buy RedHat? What is Microsoft's involvement in the SCO lawsuit? These are some of the questions discussed by Phil Windley, Matt Asay, Scott C Lemon, and their guest Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource. They also review such topics as alternative operating systems, the release of Firefox 2.0 and other current technology stories.
Making personal information available online, both to yourself and others, is a critical tool for businesses. Cosmo and Scooby, the code names for the Open Source Application Foundation's calendar server projects, are new open source information sharing applications. Listen to the OSAF's server projects development team as they introduce Cosmo and Scooby, the idea behind information management systems and how standards compliance affects development.
Who owns the rights to user created content on the internet? The IPG Emerging Media Lab is trying to answer those, and other questions companies have about the interactive web. Lori H. Schwartz and Jeff Berg, director and content editor at IPG, talk with Denise Howell about providing innovation and thought leadership to companies trying to engage users in a fragmented media marketplace.
Eden BioDesign's CEO, Crawford Brown, speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about how they help innovative ideas move out of the lab and into the biobusiness life-cycle.
How are large multinational corporations dealing with changes in the software industry? CIOs of several large organizations discuss how their IT departments are dealing with budgets and vendor relations in a constantly changing environment. Learn how companies like Wal-Mart, Shell, and Motorola are getting the best bang for their buck in this Software 2006 Keynote Chief Information Officers panel.
Leadership is about more than simply building the right organization. Leadership also requires motivating people. In this session, Janice Fraser from Adaptive Path converses with Kathan Brown, author of the book "Magical Secrets About Thinking Creatively," about being an effective leader of creative teams.
In this fireside chat with Andreas Kluth, S. Ramadorai discusses India's rise in the IT world and compares it to China's emerging role. India has gone from being perceived as a non-participant in the high-tech industry, to a major resource, to an innovation engine and a market. Ramadorai also discusses the shift in IT from a products focus to an industry that he argues is based on knowledge and services.
Vyomesh Joshi is an executive vice president at Hewlett-Packard who has helped lead the company to success over the past 25 years. In this audio lecture, Joshi discusses how HP is integrating social and environmental responsibility into its bottom line with efforts such as a program to retrieve and recycle 200 million pounds of used inkjet and LaserJet printer cartridge paraphernalia each year.
Jean-Pierre Laisne is the chairman of ObjectWeb's board of directors. He speaks to the Open Source Business Conference about his organization, what it does and where it is headed. He outlines some of ObjectWeb's more popular projects, and discusses what, he thinks, it takes to keep an open source community alive and thriving in Europe, and throughout the World.
As podcasting continues to grow, companies must come up with interesting content, as well as useful ways to deliver it to the consumer. Denise Howell interviews John Furrier, CEO of PodTech.net, who discusses some of the issues that impact the company as it strives to give users what they want and also give producers the ability to profit from their work.
