NewsForge: OSCON Under Way | Linux Today

NewsForge: OSCON Under Way

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2004

“Most of the 1,500 OSCON 2004 attendees in Portland managed to
shake off the city’s abnormally hot weekend and the Portland
Brewer’s Festival to show up for informative training and
discussion sessions on an array of open source languages and
software as the event kicked off Monday.

“Unfortunately, a case of apparent food poisoning spoiled a
presentation on open source single sign-on by Bryan Field-Elliot,
CTO of Ping Identity Corporation. Not a very good way for the local
restaurants to start Rip City’s ‘geek week.’ (We all hope you are
feeling better, Bryan…)”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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