The Standards Edge: Open Season™ will contain a collection of articles that address the current situation in open source, the debate over open source versus proprietary (or a mixture of both), the potential of addressing open source problems with open standards, and present strategies for addressing open source issues and managing exposure. This valuable book, which encompasses and expands beyond the conference topics, will be distributed to conference participants and key decision-makers in business, government, academia, and standardization throughout the world in January 2005.

About The Standards Edge™ Series
The Standards Edge™ series is designed to tackle the latest technological and standards issues and their impact on business. The series serves as a valuable resource to:

• Numerous Global 500 organizations, including AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Mitsubishi, Microsoft, AOL Time Warner, and Sun Microsystems
• Senior government representatives in the US Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the European Union, and Japan’s Ministry of Economics, Trade, and Industry (METI also distributed the book to Japan’s top economists), among others
• Leading educational institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School, UC Berkeley, Delft University of Technology, and the University of Oslo

For further information on The Standards Edge series, please visit http://www.thebolingroup.com. To order a copy of The Standards Edge: Open Season, please email sherrie@sbolin.com.