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The Linux Foundation has sent out a summary of the first Linux FoundationEnd User Summit. “On Monday and Tuesday this week the LinuxFoundation held the first Linux Foundation End User Summit in NewYork. Companies who attended included Credit Suisse, CME, AIG, MerrillLynch, Dreamworks, NYSE, Fidelity, UBS, NYPD, US NAVY, Metlife, MorgonStanley, JPMorgan Chase, Aetna, NAVTEQ, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup,Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFJ) and many more. There was concernahead of time that financial services companies may not attend due to therecent financial crisis on Wall Street. We were pleasantly surpirsed,however, to have a packed house. Perhaps in these times companies arecommitted to making the most of their investments, especially open andlower cost investments.”

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