Open Source � The Returns On The Emerging Technology A comprehensive insight on the path-breaking technology ON September 24 - 25, 2004 Timings: 9:30 AM � 5:00 PM Organised by Iducate Managers

Intruduction The rapid pace in which the Linux and the Open Source Movement have been developing meteorically in the recent years is being watched upon very closely by the entire world. The Open Source movement is an extremely powerful model for software development and advancement, and emerging economies like India particularly have a lot to gain from adopting it. �In the information age, value is based not on scarcity but on familiarity" - This is the seed thought for the movement. Open Source technologies is a term used to define those technologies which is available to the public in source code form, and which does not have licensing restrictions Open Source software generally is distributed under a license that guarantees the right to read, modify, redistribute and use the software freely. Much of the open source software is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).

Objective

To understand the Open Source Technology and achieve clarity of thinking for making cost-effective information technology based decisions. A further take-home would be a freedom of choice on decisions of softwares, an insight into the value-added benefits of the Open Source Technology and best-practices for smooth migration.

Open Source is doing what GOD, government and market have failed to do.

It is putting powerful technology within the reach of cash poor but idea-rich people.

Just imagine what the cash rich can do with it???

And, YES�That is Revolutionary!!!

Helping the

Industry discover the benefits of Open Source Technology

Linux and the Open Source Movement have been developing rapidly in recent years and are now seen as serious competitors. There are millions of user/s world-wide. Some of most successful and robust software on the web today has been developed under this license. IBM and Oracle are now among the 'big names' supporting Linux and have released Linux versions of their database server products. A high-powered lab has been set up to encourage open source development and research. Among the sponsors are Dell, Fujitsu, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, NEC, Mitsubishi, Red Hat and SGI.

The Indian government, too, in connivance with the President of India is promoting usage of Open Source software as the "platform of choice". The Department of Information Technology has already devised a strategy to introduce Linux and open source software as a de-facto standard in academic institutions, especially in engineering colleges. Research establishments have also been advised to use and develop re-distributable toolboxes just as Central government departments and state governments has been asked to use Linux-based offerings.

CONTENTS

1. STEPPING INSIDE THE WORLD OF OPEN SOURCE

q WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE?

q WHAT IS FREE?

q DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FREE & OPEN SOURCE

q LICENSE � GNU & OTHERS

q FLOSS

2. OPEN SOURCE INTEGRATORS: A LARGER VIEW ON THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES

q OPERATING SYSTEM

- LINUX

- MICRO LINUX

- DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTORS (RED HAT, CALDERA, DEBIAN ET AL)

q DATABASES

- MySQL

- SAP DB

- POSTGRES SQL

- SQL LITE

- ORACLE

q PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

- JAVA

- PHP

- PYTHON

- AUBIT 4GL

- PERL

- OTHERS (AWK, SED, BASH)

q LIBRARIES � AN OVERVIEW (PHPLIB, PERL DBI, PHP GEM)

q DOCUMENTORS (DIA)

q TESTING TOOLS

3. OPEN SOURCE BASED UTILITIES

q VNC

q PHP-PROJEKT

4. OPEN SOURCE FOR END USERS

q SQL LEDGER

q GNU CASH � AN ACCOUNTING PACKAGE

q OFFICE SUITES

5. NETWORKING THE WORLD

q LINUX WITH OTHER NETWORKS � SAMBA, MARSNWE

q MAIL SERVER

q PROXY (SQUID)

q LINUX ROUTER

6. EMBEDDED LINUX

7. WAP BASED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH KANNEL

8. COST SAVING METHODOLOGIES � LTSP

9. THE ROAD AHEAD

Who Should Attend :

CIOs, CEOs, CTOs, IT Managers, IT Consultants & IT Project Managers

SPEAKER:

Mr. T. Srinivas Reddy, Technology Head � Asia Pacific, ISI Emerging Markets, is an expert in networking, designing architectures and building web based applications using the Open Source Technology and is widely solicited as an Open Source Consultant in numerous firms such as Luence Technologies, CPAPASS.com, Optimal Solution Providers et al. He has conducted Open Source based Workshops for multitude Corporates, Computer Society of India & various educational institutions. He has taken it upon himself to contribute to the world of Open Source by creating awareness about Open Source Technologies and by utlilizing the same technology in his developmental work leading to creation of an environment that inculcates the concept of �FREEDOM� in the true sense in the end users.

Wokshop Duration : 2 days Dates: Sept. 24th & 25th, 2004 Timings: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Registration Fees: Rs. 6,000/- (Rupees Six Thousand Only), inclusive of Workshop Material. Cheque/DD should be drawn in favour of �Iducate Managers" Payable at Mumbai

Venue: Hyatt Regency, Sahar Airport Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai. Registration Contact :9820879303,34265637,32939736, 33810632,Email: iducate@vsnl.net, info@iducate.org Address: 404, Saiprasad, Road No. 7, Near Akruti Trade Centre, MIDC, Andheri East, Mumbai - 400093,

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