This year’s event focussed on interoperability, the commercialisation of Open Source Software (OSS) technologies and the acceptance of OSS when it comes to running mission critical applications.

Stakeholders of the Open Source community including the industry, government and the developer community came together under one roof at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi for LinuxAsia 2007. This year’s event emphasised the growing importance of interoperability which is now a hot topic of discussion. The event also highlighted that commercial or business interests of vendors were not necessarily contrary to the concept of ‘societal

benefit’ as espoused by OSS proponents. This formed the theme of various discussions and presentations held at the CXO Summit, a special track on the second day of the LinuxAsia 2007 convention in New Delhi.

Another reason as to why interoperability has became a noticeable and interesting area of discussion at an open source gathering is because this was the first time that Microsoft took part in the event.

However, another key message from this year’s event was also the acceptance of open source as a platform for running business critical applications. >>>>>>