Open Source ERP Guru

If you find yourself wondering, ‘am I in the right business?’, conferences are probably your best indicator. There are several large conferences focusing on open source, O’reilly Media’s OSCON is probably the largest one. It will be held in Portland, Oregon, from July 21st until July 25th, 2008. It’s also OSCON’s 10th anniversary, and we hope we will still be around to celebrate its 50th birthday. The fact that IT’s biggest names are participating, is yet another sign of the maturity of open source solutions.

None of the open source ERP vendors are sponsoring the event nor presenting in any of the related sessions. The largest event hosting just about anyone covered by open source ERP Guru is Infoworld’s OSBC, as it focuses more on open source business applications.

For OSCON 08,  information industry’s heavyweights have all lined up-Google, Sun, IBM, Yahoo, and Novell are some of the names attending. Microsoft’s absence is obvious (it would be somewhat weird to have Microsoft’s people down there). British Telecom is also a sponsor-they have recently sign a deal with SugarCRM reselling Sugar’s open source CRM solution to its huge customer base.

The conference does host a Business Track, where Open Source in the Enterprise seems to be the most promising session.

There will be plenty of live blogging and recorded sessions available online from OSCON 08, I will keep you posted during the week with the most interesting things coming out from there.

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