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In this session, we will examine the world wide phenomena of open source. I will discuss the use of open standards, open source and open tools to design and deploy reusable software. While debunking some of the myths of open source, we will examine why millions have bet their jobs, their information systems and their lives on this phenomenon. We will examine:
1. Why open source collaboration is so successful.
2. How it reduces your risks.
3. How it increases your trust.
4. How it contributes to growth.
5. Why it is a safe investment.
6. The value propositions of provider control and user freedom in closed source, gated source and open source.
As an example and proof point, we will examine open standards, open source, open tooling in the world wide healthcare industry.
Mr. McGaughey is Director of the Eclipse Ecosystem. Eclipse is a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and over four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers. He is both a founding participant of Eclipse and its original Chairperson.
Following a teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mr. McGaughey introduced advanced data processing technology as a management tool to the State of North Carolina. He also introduced distributed data processing for North Carolina’s Department of Public Education and human services where he was responsible for federal and state programs.
Mr. McGaughey’s career at the IBM Corporation was as an agent for change and technical innovation. He pioneered object oriented programming at IBM. He was chairman of the IBM Architecture Review Board that collaborated with Microsoft to design and bring advanced graphical user interfaces to market. He guided the creation of the IBM Visual Age family of products and helped design and introduced embedded programming tools. He was responsible for IBM’s visual imagery. He has been an activist in linking open source with open standards. He is a member of many international standards organizations and is forming an international open source consortium that creates interoperable tools for health systems.
Education: Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. (abd) from University of North Carolina