RALEIGH, USA: Red Hat, Inc., provider of open source solutions has announced that the call for papers is now open for the fifth-annual Red Hat Summit and the fourth-annual JBoss World.

The 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World will provide business decision makers, engineers, developers and community enthusiasts insight into the latest open source advancements in Red Hat solutions and JBoss Enterprise Middleware technologies.

A comprehensive agenda allows attendees the unique opportunity to move between both conferences, and experience technical and business seminars, hands-on labs and demos, customer case studies, networking opportunities, partner displays and visionary keynotes.

Submissions are being accepted for the 2009 Red Hat Summit in the following categories:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Infrastructure: Tell us how the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform and related infrastructure solutions, including applications, and virtualization helped to improve security, performance and generally helped with optimization.

* Open Source: Present topics meant for building on the discussion of the current issues and future opportunities facing open source advocates , the meaning of open source, how it's changing the software world and its effect on businesses, governments and society. Topics may include intellectual property, collaboration, best practices, Creative Commons and licensing.

* Emerging Technologies: Present your views and information about projects and technologies focused on the future of open source and Linux, where the Linux platform is being extended today and discussions on Linux and related open source technologies and projects from a long-term perspective.

* Business Perspectives: Share knowledge with others who will discuss the value that Linux and open source bring to organizations, business trends, Red Hat partner programs and ways open source technology can help solve business problems.

* Carving out Costs: Pass on experiences of ways to reduce overall IT costs through deployment of open source and Linux technologies, extracting more value out of existing systems and increasing competitive advantage.