Hank Janssen is the Director of Program Management at the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center OSTC). Hank has been working with UNIX and Later Linux and Other OSS for over 20 years. He started his work at AT&T and did a kernel programming for the SYS V process scheduler used for Digital Telephone switches (5ESS). While working at AT&T he designed a globally distributed database system before people knew what they were. Utilizing such golden oldies as uucp and rje. In the early and mid nineties he was the lead programmer and designer on a Point Of Sale system that did real time cell phone activations for Sprint. At that time the first anywhere in the US. It was solely build on and with OSS software. Most of his career has been spend in applications development, data manipulation and database design and development. Prior to joining Microsoft 2 1/2 years ago, he worked for the last 7 years as an Architect for large (and small) cellular telephone companies. Virtually all of the work he has been doing has been in or with UNIX, Linux and OSS related areas. Favorite languages remain C/C++ and favorite editor is still Emacs :).
Today he runs the Open Source Software Lab and Novell Joint Interoperability labs at the MS OSTC.
09:30-09:45 – Registration
09:45-10:00 – Welcome
10:00-10:30 – Microsoft and Open Source *
10:30-11:30 – PHP value add on the Microsoft Platform *
11:30-11:45 – Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 – PHP value add on the Microsoft Platform * (cont.)