Open Source continues to increase as a force in the applications world.  Just as an example, it is fairly rare to find a development environment that doesn’t have eclipse present in some way.  Countless other Open Source projects have found their way into many of today’s homegrown and packaged applications.  Legal questions continue to be raised, which Mark Driver recently blogged about in Good Books On Open Source Legal Issues.  However,  Mark will cover two more important questions in the following sessions:

• The Role of Open Source in Modern SOAs
• When and How to Adopt Open Source Software (Analyst/User Roundtable)