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Barry Klawans
Chief Architect, San Francisco International Airport, IT&T Department

Website | @bklawans

Barry Klawans has over 24 years of experience architecting and deploying enterprise applications, and during his career has been heavily involved in both IT and open source. Barry currently is the Chief Architect in the IT&T department at San Francisco International Airport, where he is responsible for designing the next generation of infrastructure systems at the airport.

Prior to SFO, Barry was the cofounder and CTO of Jaspersoft, where he was responsible for the technical vision and direction of Jaspersoft’s products. Among other accomplishement he helped pioneer the “open core” business model.

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4:30pm Thursday, 07/23/2009

Beyond the Hype: The True Costs of Open Source

Business, Emerging Topics
Location: Ballroom A3/A6

Matt Asay (The Register), Zack Urlocker (MySQL), Matt Deuel (Virgin Mobile), Jeffrey Hammond (Forrester Research), Barry Klawans (San Francisco International Airport, IT&T Department)

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In a time of tight IT budgets, open source has attracted much attention due to its cost advantages. But what is hype and what is reality? Join industry veterans, analysts and end-users as the look at the true costs and cost savings of open source. Participants will discuss how smart open source implementation can save money and where investments need to be made. Read more.

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Barry Klawans Chief Architect, San Francisco International Airport, IT&T Department