The line up for a major Linux conference in Birmingham this month is taking shape. To paraphrase The Two Ronnies, there's a packed programme ahead.

Heavyweight in the open source community such as Alan Cox, Jon 'Maddog' Hall and Tim O'Reilly are down to present keynotes at the show, which is part of the Networks for Business 2003 conference taking place at the Birmingham NEC on June 24-26.

The LinuxUser & Developer Expo - The Linux Zone, will be launched at this year's Networks for Business 2003 (formerly Networks Telecom) event. The zone is sponsored by LinuxUser & Developer Magazine. The Register is a media sponsor too.

Exhibitors at the new Linux zone include IBM, HP, Digital Networks UK, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SGI, SuSE, Holborn Book, SmoothWall, Transtec, iTS-LiNUX and UKLinux.net.

Plenty of big names, then. Executives from these companies will present during a variety of business and technical seminar tracks to take place during the show.

This year, Clive Harris, IBM (EMEA) Linux and Grid Service Leader will present The Business of Linux, and Judy Chavis, Worldwide Director, OS Alliances Software CTO Industry Standard Servers, HP will present Leading Linux into the Enterprise.

Tremendous.

So what are you waiting for?

You can sign up to attend the show here. Registration for the conference costs £50 + VAT for a day or £90 + VAT for a three-day pass. ®