Si Chen is the founder and Principal of Open Source Strategies, Inc. and is a Core Developer of the Open For Business project (www.ofbiz.org) and Release Manager for opentaps (www.opentaps.org). He has given presentations at MySQL UC 2006 and the Southern California Linux Expo. In a previous career as a fund manager, he has also been published and appeared on Reuters TV.
In this presentation, Si Chen will discuss the key trends in the enterprise
software sector, including vendor consolidation, on-demand delivery, and the
transition to a Service Oriented Architecture, and how they are creating
opportunities for open source applications. He will then showcase opentaps,
the Open Source Enterprise Applications Suite (www.opentaps.org). opentaps
is a Java open source application suite with ERP, CRM, Manufacturing,
eCommerce, and Supply Chain Management features which is built around SOA and
can be deployed on any database or platform. The presentation concludes
with a disucssion of future opportunities for open source software in the
applications sector.
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Si Chen is the founder and Principal of Open Source Strategies, Inc. and is a Core Developer of the Open For Business project (www.ofbiz.org) and Release Manager for opentaps (www.opentaps.org). He has given presentations at MySQL UC 2006 and the Southern California Linux Expo. In a previous career as a fund manager, he has also been published and appeared on Reuters TV.
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