Open Source Luminary to Keynote AstriCon 2011

Mårten Mickos to Outline How Large Enterprises are Driving Open Source Adoption, How the Traditional Software Stack is Changing and Key Drivers of Cloud Computing

Proven research leader who

Mickos is a proven research leader who, as CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, took the company from start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems for one billion dollars and Mickos at the time held a leadership position in Sun's database group. Most recently, Mickos was named CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company behind Eucalyptus, the most widely deployed open source software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service clouds.

"We are thrilled to welcome Mårten to this year's AstriCon and look forward to hearing his insights when it comes to cloud computing and the impact that open source has on enterprises of all sizes throughout the world," said Bryan M. Johns, community director at Digium. "We are in the midst of an exciting time of growth for open source, which includes the new Asterisk SCF project designed to simplify the creation of complex communications systems. As the world gathers for AstriCon and a great exchange of ideas, we're looking forward to Mårten bringing his intimate knowledge of the open source landscape and sharing his understanding of the many benefits and drivers of cutting-edge technologies in the enterprise."

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