Using Open Source Software to Create Commercial Products

Date:	May 23, 2007
Time:	2 pm EDT (18:00 GMT, 11:00am PDT)
Duration:	1 hour
Registration:	www.techonline.com

Description
Using a commercially successful embedded development suite as an example, this session focuses on the benefits, strategies, obstacles, and opportunities associated with using open source in commercial products. We'll discuss the differences between protective source licenses (e.g. the GPL) and non-protective source licenses (e.g. the EPL); the due diligence required when integrating or linking open source with proprietary code; various legal issues, such as potential patent infringement; and why guidelines for using open source code in IT environments often don't apply to commercial embedded products.

Estimated Length: 1 hour, including Q & A.

Who should Attend: Members of the embedded systems community interested in the challenges of open source: engineers and engineering managers, software designers, team and test leads.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this session.

Speakers Biographies
Mark Roberts is director of product management at QNX Software Systems, responsible for product roadmaps, product line management and product marketing. He comes to QNX with over 20 years of Semiconductor industry experience in Wireless LAN, Networking Systems-on-a-chip, and highly integrated Embedded Processors. Mark has a BScEE, computer engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Doug Schaefer has more than 16 years of software development and architecture experience gained at such industry leaders as IBM Rational and Bell Northern Research (now Nortel). He recently took over leadership of the Eclipse CDT project and is a software architect for QNX Momentics, a development suite built on the Eclipse platform. Doug joined QNX from IBM Rational, where he was the development lead and architect for the company's contribution to the Eclipse CDT project. In addition to his CDT work, Doug managed the IBM Rational team responsible for code generation and debugger integrations for the Rose RealTime and XDE UML modeling products. Prior to that, while at Bell Northern Research (now Nortel), Doug took on numerous design and development responsibilities and wrote software for the maintenance system of the company's DMS voice communication switch.

About QNX Software Systems
QNX Software Systems, a Harman International company (NYSE: HAR), is the industry leader in realtime, embedded OS technology. The component-based architectures of the QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX® Momentics® development suite together provide the industry's most reliable and scalable framework for building innovative, high-performance embedded systems. Global leaders such as Cisco, DaimlerChrysler, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens depend on QNX technology for network routers, medical instruments, vehicle telematics units, security and defense systems, industrial robotics, and other mission- or life-critical applications. Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and distributes products in over 100 countries worldwide.

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