• Overview
• Tracks
• Agenda
• Speakers
• Travel
• Why go?
• Who should go?
• Awards

What's new

• Uncovering the new opportunities in deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and virtualization
• Introduction to Red Hat developer program
• Smart cards, Keberos and single sign-on in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• SELinux best practices and what's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Yum and you
• Introduction to Red Hat Application Stack and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
• Introduction to Red Hat messaging
• Red Hat Network roadmap and introduction life-cycle management of Red
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network Satellite
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux product family review
• Virtualization support and managing diversity
• Virtualization food fight
• Native host intrusion protection with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and the audit subsystem
• Performance tuning Java and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Handling asynchronous driver updates on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and beyond

ROI, TCO, SOA and other important acronyms

• Manageable virtual appliances
• Open source SOA strategies and value
• Clustering + machine virtualization = Availability management performance
• Integrating JBPM and rules for business process automation
• Fault tolerant computing
• Using AMQP, RHM, and Qpid to solve common middleware problems
• The value of open source SOA to improve business execution
• Lightweight SOA with JBoss jBPM
• Creating cluster aware applications for performance and high
• Availability using Red Hat's cluster API's in theory and practice
• Gaining competitive advantage with an SOA solution
• Investing in open source

Beyond the operating system

• A case for open source backup
• Improving collaboration with open source knowledge management
• Understanding Red Hat's subscription model and working with Red Hat Exchange
• Using oprofile with AMD's CodeAnalyst on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Unconventional Linux
• Open source security updates; Why it's different. What you should know.

Peer to peer perspectives

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - Integration into existing large scale environments
• Succeeding with open source virtualization
• Integrating Java EE and SAF
• Technical collaboration
• Project BonFire
• Tuning determinism of mission critical finance applications
• Horizon architecture and Red Hat Enterprise Linux healthcare platform
• Building a modern day infrastructure around open source (A redhat.com success story)
• Current and future use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in AOL
• Defining technical requirements for telco through the Scope alliance

What's next

• Firefox - The Linux connection
• Integrtating Windows and Linux identity infrastructures
• Building a custom version of Fedora
• Programming for tomorrow's high speed processors, today
• Online services and the modern client
• User centric identity
• Open document formats
• Provisioning with Cobbler
• Real-time Linux features
• Q&A with the Fedora Project leadership

In the news

• GPLv3
• Open voting
• Internal policies and procedures regarding open source software
• Intellectual property, open source, and available protections
• Design thinking
• Emerging markets - Brazil
• Critical markets - Japan
• Open source from a proprietary perspective
• One Laptop Per Child
• Security in a networked world
• Open Codecs, open content and the creative commons
• Open source and emerging markets

Decoding the code

• Problem solving with System Tap
• Best practices using Xen virtualization with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Xen
• Using and developing Frysk
• Global File Systems - Best practices and performance tuning
• Managing open source technology in the enterprise
• RPM best practices
• Automatic tracking of configuration changes
• Red Hat Network - Defining, deploying and managing your virtualized environment with RHN Satellite
• Advice from the road - RHN best practices
• Performance analysis and system tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Part 1
• Performance analysis and system tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Part 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / Fedora live CD experience
• Leveraging an open source portal framework for the integration of a Web application