(Source: Business Wire)No chief technologist wants to deploy unproven open source software, risking the operational integrity, revenues and reputation of his or her enterprise. Yet just as certainly, no CTO wants to be left behind as technologies such as the open source LAMP software stack ripen, leaving the field open to its innovative use by nimbler competitors. To help technology decisionmakers assess the tipping point, Nashville-based Remarkable Wit, LLC has invited global leaders in open source development to an Enterprise LAMP Summit to make their case that LAMP”Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python and Perl”has proven its ability to provide performance that CTOs at the world's largest enterprises can rely on for global deployment.

Speakers at the groundbreaking Summit, slated for Nov. 5-6, 2009 in Nashville, TN, will include:

Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading open source and Linux provider;

Andi Gutmans, CEO of Zend Technologies, which develops PHP, the technology that powers roughly 40% of the Internet;

r0ml (Robert Lefkowitz), thought leader, über-CTO and VP of Asurion;

William Hurley, Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software (NYSE: BMC), which is used by 85% of Fortune 500 companies;

Kent Freeman, CIO of Ingram Digital;

Bob Miller, VP of Technology at Magazines.com;

Paul Santinelli, Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners and former Director of Red Hat Network;

Jimmy Guerrero, Senior Product Marketing Manager at MySQL;

Baron Schwartz, Director of Consulting, Percona, Inc.;

John Busch, Ph.D., CEO of Schooner Information Technology;

John Reuning, Lead Architect of Lulu.com; and

Josh Berkus, CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. and member of the Technical Steering Committee of Open Source for America.

The Enterprise LAMP Proposition

Organized by thought leadership and tech evangelist firm Remarkable Wit, LLC, the conference pivots on the assertion that not only the LAMP stack but also a growing array of what CEO Marcus Whitney calls "LAMP-friendly" technologies stand ready to introduce a new era in internet technology.

Whitney explains, "Technology leaders need reliable, secure, highly functional, high performance, portable and scalable internet service applications. In the past, often that meant turning to proprietary software.