Versora CTO Jon Walker To Present At LinuxWorld San Francisco

Santa Barbara, CA – Jon Walker, Versora CTO, has been invited to speak at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo on Wednesday, August 10th at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Mr. Walker’s presentation, titled Windows to Linux Desktop Migration – A Technical Overview, will focus on the business and technical considerations of a Windows to Linux desktop migration. Included in the presentation will be best practice migration processes, how to deal with proprietary applications and reducing the complexity with automated migration tools. The presentation will begin at 1pm.

In addition to his role as CTO of Versora, Mr. Walker is a Contributing Editor to LinuxWorld Magazine and has co-authored numerous whitepapers with Novell and MySQL AB including Moving to a Linux Desktop, Migrating from IIS Web Server to Apache SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 and Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL Databases Running on Linux. Prior to Versora, Mr. Walker was CTO/VP of Engineering for Miramar Systems (acquired by Computer Associates in 2004). Software developed under his direction at Miramar has been deployed to over 20 million computers worldwide. Mr. Walker has also served as senior technologist for Nortel and Xing Technology (now Real Networks).

At 5:15pm on Wednesday, August 10th, Versora Chief Software Architect Nick Lassonde will be hosting a Birds of a Feather roundtable discussion as a follow-up to Mr. Walker’s Windows to Linux desktop migration presentation. The discussion will focus on Linux desktop's readiness for the enterprise, planning for an organization's Windows to Linux desktop migration, and tools to ease the migration process.

About Versora
Versora is a leading provider of Windows to Linux migration solutions. Versora offers software and professional services that enable and accelerate enterprise Linux adoption. Solutions that Versora offer include Linux mail and collaboration migration from Microsoft Exchange servers, Linux database migration from Microsoft SQL servers, Apache web server migration from Microsoft IIS web servers, and Windows to Linux desktop migration. Versora will be exhibiting in the Novell Partner Pavilion (Booth #624/P24) at LinuxWorld San Francisco Conference & Expo August 9-11, 2005. For more information about Versora, visit www.versora.com.