LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2008 Kicks off Next Week in San Francisco

Linux and open source community gather for industry's largest
event where emerging trends, innovative products and agenda-setting
educational content meet for four days only
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and
events, today provided a preview of next week's LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo(R). During the event, which runs August 4-7 at Moscone Center
North in San Francisco, more than 200 exhibitors and thousands of
Linux and open source users from around the globe will gather to
explore the latest products and solutions, learn from industry leaders
about emerging trends, and gather intelligence in broad-reaching
educational and hands-on training sessions focused on key industry
themes.

The LinuxWorld(R) exhibit hall floor opens on Tuesday, August 5 at
10:00 a.m. Exhibit hall passes are free on or before August 3, 2008
and will cost $50.00 thereafter. Register for free exhibit hall passes
at http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.

The LinuxWorld exhibit floor will feature companies that are
driving the future of Linux and open source, including, ACCESS, CA,
CISCO, Fujitsu, Intel, Talend, Ubucon, Novell, Bivio Networks, VMware,
SugarCRM, Rackable Systems, Wind River, Oracle and many more. Many
exhibitors consider LinuxWorld the perfect stage to announce their
latest product and service offerings or other breaking news relevant
to the Linux and open source industry. Following is a list of
scheduled press conferences for exhibitors who plan to make formal
announcements during next week's event:

Press Conference Schedule - Room 124 in the Media Center

Tuesday, August 5

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10:15 - 11:00 a.m.: Zmanda
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon: IBM
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.: Canonical
3:00 - 3:45 p.m.: Linagora
4:00 - 4:45 p.m.: IPBrick International
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In addition to breaking industry news coming out of scheduled
press conferences, many exhibiting companies are expected to use the
LinuxWorld show floor to announce the public debut or general
availability of their newest solutions, or as a place to spotlight
recently announced or enhanced products. The following is a sneak
preview of some of the products that will be showcased on the exhibit
floor this year:

3LEAF SYSTEMS (Booth #1530) will announce the 3Leaf(R) V-8000
Virtual I/O Server V2.0. The technology delivers greatly simplified
management and provisioning of large-scale server deployments,
cost-effective disaster recovery, enhanced agility using modular
building blocks for application provisioning, improved availability
and resiliency using enhanced multipathing and solution deployment on
commercially available x86 platforms.

ASTARO CORPORATION (Booth #1307) will showcase the new Astaro
Smart Installer, which allows resellers and customers to quickly and
easily re-image Astaro hardware appliances. Utilizing UDRW technology,
the Astaro Smart Installer is recognized as a full USB CD/ROM loaded
with the latest version, eliminating the need for new hardware or
time-consuming downloads.

ELASTIX (Booth #1620) will be unveiling the new Elastix Appliance
ELX-030, which offers everything you need to support up to 30
concurrent calls in your PBX. Bringing together the best available
tools for Asterisk in a single, unified communications package with a
rackable format, the Elastix Appliance ELX-030 is great for SMB IP PBX
needs.

gOS (Booth #1627) will be announcing a new, third version of its
Linux OS called gOS 3 Gadgets, which features Google Gadgets for
Linux, WINE, LXDE and other Google native Linux software for an
improved user experience. Attendees will have an early look at gOS 3
running on a wide variety of consumer netbooks and nettops.

HUMMINGBIRD - THE OPEN TEXT CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GROUP (Booth
#1419) will be showcasing Exceed Freedom(TM), designed to increase the
productivity of X Window application users and allow organizations to
streamline Linux infrastructure. As an add-on to Exceed(R) 2008 and
Exceed PowerSuite(TM) 2008, Exceed Freedom reduces user downtime,
lowers bandwidth costs and enables global access to Linux
applications.

IPBRICK INTERNATIONAL (Booth #1244) will unveil the release 5.0 of
IPBrick Intranet and Communication server OS and the arrival of its
UCoIP - Unified Communications over IP solutions to the US market.
IPBrick is an advanced solution that enables simple and integrated
management of all communications inside and outside the organization.
It enables users to be reached by their unique address (e.g.
user@company.com) via Voice, Instant Messaging, E-mail or personal Web
access. IPBrick will present its range of products and provide in loco
presentations of several UCoIP implementation scenarios and new
features of 5.0 by the developers of this new release.

OPENBRAVO (Booth #1515) is announcing new additions to its
Openbravo Network family of products for businesses and Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs). The Openbravo Network family of products
bundles access to certified updates and upgrades and a bug fixing
guarantee to ensure the user is always up-to-date. Joining the already
released Openbravo SME Network One, the new additions include
Openbravo OEM Network for ISVs, tailored for independent software
vendors (ISVs) that want to build commercial offerings on top of
Openbravo's ERP software, and Openbravo Base Network, designed for
organizations that only need Openbravo ERP with professional support.

OPENMOKO (Booths #1234 and 1625), creator of the first completely
open mobile computing platform, will be showcasing the Openmoko Neo
Freerunner mobile phone, which first hit the developer market in
July. This phone surpasses the Openmoko Neo 1973 that was introduced a
year ago and includes open source software and hardware design files
that enable developers to significantly modify the look and operation
of the phone, bringing a new level of freedom and flexibility to
consumer electronics and vertical market devices.

SPLUNK (Booth #1416) will demonstrate support for the Splunk for
Virtual Server Management, Splunk for Windows Server Management and
Splunk for Change Management solutions at this year's event. The
Splunk Platform is the industry's first integrated approach to keeping
infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Splunk collects and
manages logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, and
statistics from every IT component making the data available to any
application for fast problem solving, threat response, compliance
reporting or insight into user activity and transactions. Splunk
customers can create their own applications on the platform, easily
distribute their applications and download applications created by
anyone in the Splunk ecosystem.

STONEFLY, INC. (Booth #1315), a leading supplier of integrated IP
storage area network (SAN) systems, will announce the availability of
server virtualization capabilities for all of its IP SANs through
certification with both the Citrix/Xen and VMware platforms. In
addition, the company will unveil for the first time its new SAN-based
encryption capabilities for the StoneFly Integrated Storage
Concentrator (ISC) line of high-availability IP SANs. Lastly, StoneFly
will demonstrate, for the first time, its robust new StoneFusion 6.1
intelligent network storage platform, which is now being offered as a
standard, integrated component of all StoneFly IP SANs to deliver
block-level provisioning and centralized storage management, control
and monitoring of logical storage volumes.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (Booth #1232) will be showcasing several new
products: Beagle Board, Logic's Zoom Mobile Development Kit, the
OMAP35x Evaluation Module (EVM) and Cogent's CBS740 - OMAP3530 SODIMM.
Beagle Board is an ultra low-cost, high-performance, low-power
OMAP35x-based platform. This fanless, single-board computer is based
on Texas Instruments' OMAP3530 processor that features an ARM
Cortex-A8 core device family and has the expandability of today's
desktop machines. Logic's Zoom Mobile Development Kit, based on TI's
OMAP3430 Processor, provides developers with an affordable, more
realistic system for development and validation. The OMAP35x EVM
includes code/software (DVSDK) to provide a complete hardware and
software platform for evaluating all OMAP35x processors.

Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc. (TCS) (Booth #1407), a developer
of security applications that run on the Linux Operating System, will
announce new compliance features for both the standalone and
enterprise versions of Security Blanket(TM). Security Blanket is the
industry's most comprehensive system lock-down and security management
solution that enables system administrators to automatically configure
and enhance the security levels of Linux operating systems. The new
features of Security Blanket provide compliance guidelines for
organizations with industrial control systems (ICS), companies that
process credit card transactions (PCI) and government agencies
accessing classified data. The product supports Red Hat Enterprise
Linux versions 4 and 5, CentOS versions 4 and 5 and Oracle Enterprise
Linux versions 4 and 5.

LinuxWorld 2008 Conference & Exhibit Floor Highlights

Keynotes: Attendees will hear keynote presentations focused on the
latest trends and increasing role of Linux and open source in the
enterprise with industry leaders including: Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing
director and chief technology architect, Merrill Lynch; Randall
Spratt, EVP and chief information officer, McKesson; Rajiv Ramaswami,
vice president and general manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.; Edward
Screven, chief corporate architect, Oracle Corporation; Mark Sunday,
chief information officer and senior vice president, Oracle
Corporation; Bob Sutor, VP, Open Source and Standards, IBM; and Simon
Crosby, CTO, Citrix Systems Inc., and Kevin Clark, director of IT
operations, Lucasfilm, Ltd.

Feature Presentations include: "Making Cars Drive Themselves" with
Sebastian Thrun, director of the artificial intelligence lab and
leader of the Stanford Racing Team, Stanford University; "Green is
Still the Color of Money," a panel moderated by Don Tennant, vice
president/editorial director, Computerworld and InfoWorld; "Mass
Collaboration and Linux: How achievements in server, mobile and
desktop help each and every Linux user," a panel moderated by Jim
Zemlin of the The Linux Foundation.

NEW! The Mobile Linux Conference: Sponsored by ACCESS, Wind River,
Qualcomm and Motorola, the Mobile Linux Conference is a separate event
dedicated to giving attendees in-depth technical training, strategic
insight, and hands-on experience in Linux and open source
opportunities and solutions for the mobile and embedded arenas. The
conference will feature educational tracks and presentations from
leading experts in the field, including Christy Wyatt, vice president
of software platforms & ecosystem at Motorola, and Ram Peddibholta,
director of open source technology center at Intel.

NEW! The Linux Garage: Sponsored by Texas Instruments, the Linux
Garage gives attendees an opportunity to look under the hood at the
latest and coolest gadgets based on embedded Linux, including PDAs and
hand held computers, mobile phones, home automation, audio/video
entertainment devices, appliances and robots. The Linux Garage will
feature the gamut of embedded Linux devices, from those
not-quite-in-production to those available for purchase today.

NEW! Software Central: As open source moves up the stack and Linux
is used increasingly to support mission-critical applications,
software (whether open source or proprietary applications optimized
for Linux) has become a key focus of LinuxWorld. Software Central is a
highlighted area of the show floor where attendees can find and
compare open source and proprietary software applications optimized
for Linux.

NEW! InstallFest for Schools: On the expo floor at LinuxWorld,
Untangle and GES will be organizing a massive InstallFest to donate
open source (Ubuntu) computers to schools in need. The hardware will
be supplied by the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC),
which is recycling discarded computers from businesses, government and
the general public. LinuxWorld attendees are encouraged to join the
InstallFest by hacking older hardware, installing Ubuntu or donating
unwanted computers.

NEW! Open Source Voting Demonstration: The Open Voting Consortium
(OVC) has teamed-up with LinuxWorld to host a demonstration of open
source voting at LinuxWorld. Attendees will have a unique opportunity
to use an open source voting system to cast a mock ballot for the 2008
Presidential election, vote for a People's Choice Award for the best
new product at LinuxWorld and witness how the votes are tallied and
available for recount using this system. The balloting area will be
located on the show floor and the polls will close on Thursday, August
7 at 3:30 p.m. with final results announced shortly thereafter.

Dice Technology & Engineering Career: Returning for its second
year at LinuxWorld, Dice, the leading job site for technology
professionals, will host a free, one-day Technology and Engineering
career fair at on Wednesday, August 6 in Room 135. This is the perfect
opportunity for high-tech professionals to meet face-to-face with
recruiters from the world's leading Linux and open source companies at
one of the largest technology conferences of the year.

Golden Penguin Bowl: The wildly popular game show returns with
host Jeremy Allison, co-creator of Samba. Three geeks will line up
against three nerds and match intellectual wits in this battle for who
can recall the most inane trivia regarding sci-fi, high-tech, Linux
and all things geek. The game takes place Tuesday, August 5 at 4:40
p.m.

LinuxWorld.com Product Excellence Awards: Come see the most
innovative Linux and open source products receive recognition. The
awards cover a wide variety of open source solutions categories and
are voted on by a panel of independent judges and industry experts.
Winners will be announced during a ceremony at the event on Tuesday,
August 5 at 4:00 p.m. at Center Stage located in the North Hall.

For more information or to register for the event, please visit:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.

About LinuxWorld Conference & Expo

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the premier event exclusively
focused on Linux and open source solutions. As the world's most
comprehensive marketplace for open source products and services,
LinuxWorld provides business decision-makers with information and
resources to implement Linux and open source solutions into business
infrastructure and enterprise networks. For more information or to
register for the event, visit the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Web
site at www.linuxworldexpo.com, or call (800) 657-1474. For exhibiting
opportunities, please contact Amy Bonner at (508) 424-4892 or
amy_bonner@idg.com or Giovanni Stein at (508) 424-4864 or
Giovanni_stein@idg.com. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact
Ellen Moorehead at (508) 988-7830, or ellen_moorehead@idg.com or
Michelle Mohr at (508) 424-4855, or michelle_mohr@idg.com.

About IDG World Expo

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tradeshows and events for professionals and consumers seeking
world-class education, peer-to-peer networking and one-stop comparison
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