O'Reilly
June 25, 1998

OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER DAY PROVIDES NUTS AND BOLTS OF FREELY-DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE Essential Development Concepts, Successful Business Models Highlighted

Sebastopol, CA--The momentum of open source software has been building since March, when Netscape announced its freely-available Communicator source code; April, when O'Reilly & Associates sponsored the widely-reported Open Source Summit; and this week, with IBM's announcement that it is adopting Apache's free server for its e-commerce Web server. Continuing that momentum, O'Reilly is sponsoring the first Open Source Developer Day on August 21 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, immediately following O'Reilly's Perl Conference 2.0. Complete information and online registration is at opensource.oreilly.com. Admission to Open Source Developer Day is $195 through July 15, and for attendees of Perl Conference 2.0; after July 15, general admission is $295.

Open Source Developer Day is designed to provide practical information about how open source software works in the real world. The event focuses on how successful open source software communities have developed, and the business models and licenses which people have created to support them.

Topics to be discussed include:

Key members of such open source communities as Apache, Linux, Perl and mozilla.org will be participants on panels, including:

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