I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into the hotel, guess who I saw? My friend who I met on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. What a small world, isn't it? Her company was one of the sponsors of the event.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Cheryl Traverse, Chairman and CEO of Immunix, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the fast-growing Secure Linux and Software Appliance markets.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Dr. Adam Kolawa, CEO, chairman, and a cofounder of Parasoft, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about AEP, 'automated error protection' and how it significantly improves the software development process.

SYS-CON interviews Jeremy White, CEO of Codeweavers, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

'Open standards, not just open source,' says Sam Greenblatt, Senior VP and Chief Architect of the Linux Technology Group for Computer Associates. He is as bullish about open source in the enterprise, in governments, and in the world at large as he has ever been - and so is CA's new management, he says.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Bob Corrigan, Product Manager for InstallShield's setup authoring tools, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the dramatic year-to-year growth that InstallShield is seeing in its cross-platform sales...including Linux.

SYS-CON Radio interviews John Fanelli, Sun's senior director of marketing, Network Systems Group, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the exact nature of Sun's engagement with Linux and open source, including the question of whether and when Sun will open-source Solaris. (It will, he confirms.)

SYS-CON Radio interviews Tim Lee, CEO of Pogo Linux, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about Linux hardware and compatability, including dual-boot systems and Pogo's newly launched AMD 64-bit 'Linux laptop.'

SYS-CON Radio interviews Anthony Johnson, El Presidente of Storix, winner of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for data back-up and storage solution, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON interviews Russ Shelton, VP of Marketing, SteelEye Technology, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the company's latest announcements.

SYS-CON interviews Mike Ruane, President and CEO of Revelation Software, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the company's latest announcements.

SYS-CON interviews Todd Johnson, President of Jamcracker, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON interviews Martin Buckley, 'Evil Zen Scientist' and Director of Product Management for Novell's ZENworks product line, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON interviews Michael Norman, CEO of Scapa Technologies, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco, about Eclipse and - especially - the Hyades Project.

SYS-CON Radio interviews IBM's Jon Prial, VP of Marketing and Strategy, DB2 Information Management, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about this week's headline-making IBM Cloudscape announcement.

SYS-CON Radio interviews the Senior Director of Wyse Technology's Winterm product line, Mike DeNeffe, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the fast-growing emerging market for Linux thin clients.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Ranajit Nevatia, VERITAS Software's Director of Linux Strategy, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about a wide range of aspects of the current 'state of the union' in the Linux space.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Ben Williams, VP of AMD's Enterprise Server/Workstation Business Microprocessor Business Unit, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about AMD's remarkable rise and rise and the company's highly active global role in the unfolding Linux story.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Black Duck Software's CEO and President, Doug Levin, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about Black Duck's unusual niche activity and its word-of-mouth success strategy.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Tom Barton, CEO of Rackable Systems, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about Rackable's leading-edge data center server products, his company's open architecture approach to technology design and manufacturing, and tells of the early role played in The Google Success Story by this market-leading manufacturer of rack-mount servers...in conjunction with Linux of course.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Larry Rosen, of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about his timely new book 'Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law' - published just this week.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Tony Howlett, network security guru and author, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about his new book 'Open Source Security Tools' - just published in Bruce Perens's renowned Open Source Series.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Charlie Ungashick, Director of Product Management and Marketing, Novell, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco, about the technical improvement to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) being announced at the show and about how SLES 9 fits into Novell's overall Linux strategy.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Mark Sobell, consultant and author of the comprehensive, 1100-page volume: 'A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux' - a book that comes complete with 4 installation CDs.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Philippe Roussel, CEO of Arkeia, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about Arkeia's forthcoming release of its version 5.3 and about the importance of disk-to-disk backup in general.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Bernard Golden, author of a new book, Succeeding with Open Source, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco. The book - published by Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall - is a how-to guide for organizations, says Golden.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Novell's Ashish Larivee, Director of Product Marketing for Novell exteNd and Nsure, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about exteNd 5.2 and about this week's announcement of a new relationship between Novell and the leading open source Java app server, JBoss.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Alan Boucher, Senior Architect of Intel.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Mark Bucciarelli, Developer for KDE

SYS-CON Radio Interviews James Cox, Editor for Apress

SYS-CON Radio interviews Bruce Borden, Chief Scientist/EVP for Tadpole Computer Inc.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Bradley Kuhn, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Steven Pignataro of Mambo Open Source CMS

SYS-CON Radio Interviews John Terpstra of Prentice Hall and the Samba Project

SYS-CON Radio interviews Asaf Somekh, Director of Marketing for Voltaire

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Frederic Renard, Director of Marketing for Arkeia

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Brian Jepson O'Reilly Editor

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Russell Shelton, Vice President of Marketing for SteelEye Technology

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Scott McNeil, Executive Director of the Free Standards Group

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Mark Smith, Ph.D Managing Director of the Gelato Federation