1. "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." -Albert Einstein

2. Welcome to Open World Dwarakanath J Technology Evangelist Sun Microsystems 3.

Open Source 4. Components 5. Business model 6. What's Next? 7. Discovering the open world around you.

Agenda 8. Open Source? -The BuzzZ word 9.

Open Source Technologies are developed and spread like anything. 10. Because, Anyone can develop, improve and redistribute them. 11. These are self motivated and community powered. 12. Every single developer can use his/her creativity and strengths to develop the application/technology. 13. There are no limits and all the freedom.

Open Source Technologies 14.

Linux 15. Java 16. Glassfish 17. Fedora 18. Netbeans 19. Apache 20. Jhoomla

SugarCRM 21. Eclipse 22. MySQL 23. Pentaho 24. Open HA

And Lots more... List of Open Source Technologies 25. Open Source Business Model 26. Biggest Players in Open Source

IBM 27. HP 28. SUN 29. RedHat 30. Apache Software Foundation 31. Mozilla Foundation 32. Linus Torvalds

Corporate Non-ProfitOrganizations Individuals 33.

Cost savings 34. Stability 35. No forced upgrades 36. Access and broad rights to source code 37. Access to skilled community of developers 38. Ability to define and expedite new development

Open Source and Corporate World 39. Companies Emerging In this field 40.

Participate 41. Learn 42. Diversify your skill set 43. Continuous skillsimprovement

Skill Set Requirements 44. Dwarakanath J http://blogs.sun.com/dwarak +91 9884799523 Thanks and Suggestions