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LinuxWorld CONFERENCE & EXPO REWARDS OPEN SOURCE DEDICATION

IDG World Expo has announced the winners of awards recognizing achievements by the open source community at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The awards included the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards, and the OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award.

Following a keynote presentation by Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Rob Scheschareg, vice president of sales, marketing and product development of IDG World Expo, presented the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award to the Free Standards Group for demonstrating an exceptional commitment to open source. The Free Standards Group was rewarded for its work to accelerate the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the application, development and promotion of standards.

"The Free Standards Group is very grateful to Linus Torvalds for creating the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman for laying the foundation of free software; and IDG World Expo for creating LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, a great forum for technology geeks and business people to meet, exchange ideas and move Linux forward," said Scott McNeil, Executive Director of the Free Standards Group.

IDG World Expo also presented the Open Source Excellence Awards in conjunction with the UniForum Association. The following awards were presented in recognition of outstanding open source products and services offered by LinuxWorld Conference & Expo exhibitors:

Best of Show

• IBM: eServer iSeries

Best Developer Tools

• NuSphere Corporation: Pro Best Network/Server Application
• Sistina: Global File Systems Storage Clusters

Best Embedded Linux Solutions

• Trolltech

Best Open Source Project

• K Desktop Environment: KDE 2.2

Best Productivity Application

• Red Hat Inc: Red Hat DB

Best System Integration Solution

• Linux NetworX: ICE Cluster

"In celebration of the tenth birthday of Linux, the community continues to reward specific innovations and certain companies whose tireless dedication have helped the platform 'come of age'," said IDG World Expo's Scheschareg. "Having played a significant role in the growth of the Linux movement, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the ideal forum for the recognition of these achievements."

Rounding out the award presentations at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo was the OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award, presented for the first time at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. OSDL presented its $25,000 cash prize to Heinz Mauelshagen in recognition of his work on the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Mauelshagen is a senior engineer and team lead at Sistina Software, where he is responsible for the development of LVM, a software solution helps large enterprises manage data storage. The next OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award to honor contributions to open source programming for the enterprise data center will be presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo/New York 2002.

"The OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award recognizes developers for exceptional contributions to Linux for the enterprise," said Tim Withan, OSDL's lab director. "Heinz's contribution to the data center, through LVM, is extremely significant. We hope this award will encourage Heinz and other Linux developers to continue enhancing open source programs for enterprise and telecomm usage."

Recognized as the world's largest gathering of the open source community, the next LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is scheduled for January 29 - February 1, 2002 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

For More Information

For more LinuxWorld Conference & Expo information, or to register for the event, visit the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Web site at www.linuxworldexpo.com, or call 800-657-1474. For exhibiting opportunities, please contact Colin Brown (A-Ib) at 508- 424-4851 or Colin_Brown@idg.com or Beverly Griffith (Ic-Z) at 508-424-4852 or Beverly_Griffith@idg.com.

About Open Source Development Lab (OSDL)

Supported by a global consortium of industry leaders, the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is an independent, vendor-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to enabling Linux and Linux-based programming for enterprise and carrier-class functionality worldwide. Headquartered outside Portland, Oregon, OSDL fulfills a critical need in the open source development community to have access to the high-end hardware for programming and testing. More information on OSDL is available at www.osdlab.org.

About IDG World Expo

IDG World Expo produces world-class tradeshows, conferences, and events for emerging IT markets around the globe. As the leading IT event management company, IDG World Expo leverages its unsurpassed experience and knowledge of IT-focused events and conferences, enabling technology companies to capture the attention and loyalty of influential buyers. IDG World Expo's portfolio of conferences and events includes Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, COMNET Conference & Expo, COMNET Wireless Conference & Expo, Federal Open Source Conference, ESPWorld, Enterprise Application Summit, BioITWorld Conference & Expo and Internet Entertainment Expo (IEX). IDG World Expo is a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), a leading global provider of IT media, research, conferences, and expositions.

About IDG

IDG World Expo is a business unit of IDG, a leading technology media, research and event company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net, which comprises more than 300 targeted Web sites in 70 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related events worldwide, and provides IT market analysis through 51 offices in 43 countries worldwide. Company information is available at www.idg.com.

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