“Open Source Development
Network (OSDN.com), a division of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
LNUX), today announced the launch of the OSDN Developer Services
Program, which will kick off with an Open Source Database
Summit on October 30 and 31, 2000 in San Jose,
California.”
“The two-day summit, sponsored by NuSphere, will bring together
leading database developers in the Open Source community, and is
the first in an ongoing series of events organized by the OSDN Developer Services Program. By
hosting a series of tightly focused developer-to-developer (D2D)
events, the OSDN Developer
Services Program will facilitate communication and cooperation
between Open Source software developers, vendors and users working
in key technology areas.”
“OSDN’s first Database Summit
will feature speakers representing some of the leading Open Source
database projects, including David Axmark and Monty Widenius of
MySQL AB; D. Britton Johnston, CTO of NuSphere; PostgreSQL
developers Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane of Great Bridge; InterBase
co-founder Ann Harrison, president of IBPhoenix; and Berkeley DB
developers Michael Olson and Michael Udell of Sleepycat
Software.”