With the traditional closed model, innovation belonged to the inventor. Open source is the ideal development and business model for today's massively connected, Participation Age economy. Adopting open source software helps to lower customer barriers to: access, switching costs, and greater value achieved in an environment that allows for increased participation and competition. With this model, companies gain compensation for their innovations by building on the contributions of others.

Acknowledging this benefit, Malaysia Government have initiated the requisite supportive policies and guidelines for Open Source Software and Open Standards to lay the groundwork of establishing an innovation economy.

As the largest commercial open source contributor for the Web economy, Sun is honored to collaborate with Multimedia Development Corporation(MDeC) to bring to you Open Source Economy Conference 2008!

Join us at the conference as we deep dive into how you can adopt Open Source as a mean to achieving competitive edge in the innovation economy. Get the added edge with MySQL which we will be kicking off the launch in the conference! See for yourself the scalability of MySQL, the open source database.

And while you're waiting for the Sun/MySQL Tour to arrive, you may want to:

•	Read Gartner's report "Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008" where Gartner discusses an increasing role for open source within business strategies in coming years.
•	Find out The Benefits of Free and Open Source Software
•	Use our TCO calculator to see your savings with Sun and MySQL
•	Try out MySQL, the leading open-source database, today
•	Check out Sun's Free and Open Source Projects