Jan Hauser is a Principal Architect within Sun Microsystems Federal. His current focus is two areas: JAVA/Jini and High Performance computing. Jan also is also keenly interested in CHAOS/Complexity science, is responsible for Sun's membership in the Santa Fe Institute and was a corporate sponsor of Digital Burgess.
Mr. Hauser has worked at Sun for 14 years. Prior to Sun Jan managed software development at Machine Intelligence, a machine vision company, and was product manager for Operating Systems and TANDEM, a NonStop computer company. Early in is his career Jan participated in the real-time analysis of the Apollo 11 lunar samples for the purpose of certifying their safety regarding any possible presence of extraterrestrial microorganisms.
Jan will present an overview of the various flavors of "Open Source" and discuss some of the properties of each of the various licenses from a user perspective and how they build "community".
