Linux, Microsoft, and Sun gather at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. Where is Apple?

“On April 8-10, there will be a meeting of the great minds of the OS in San Francisco, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit . The meeting is sponsored by Intel and will be attended by representatives of the Linux Foundation, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. For the first time, three parties will discuss the future not only of their own operating systems, but also of the operating system industry as a whole. What will be the result of such a meeting? God only knows. ”

The sit-in meeting will be moderated by the Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. Participants include Sam Ramji, (Director of Platform Strategy) Microsoft and Ian Murdock (Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing) , Sun. But where is Apple?
Apple accounts for about 10% of the global OS market , but they are clearly absent from these negotiations. Developers of a Unix-based Mac Os X obviously have something to share? However, participation is possible only by invitation - perhaps they (Apple) and not invited. Perhaps they were invited but decided to give up and continue to “bend their line further,” which is very similar to Apple.
Also in terms of the event is Al Gillen (IDC Program Vice President, Systems Software) , which will share forecasts of innovations in the world of operating systems and will talk about the impact of the economic downturn on the global OS market.
Edward Screven, (Chief Corporate Architect) Oracle, on the opening day will report on the company's business model built around Linux.
Intel, the host sponsor of the event, delegated Imad Sousou, director of the open source technology center (Director of the Open Source Technology Center) , to talk about Mobile Linux and present a program called Moblin State of the Union
The group consisting of Jono Bacon (Ubuntu community manager), James Bottomley (Novell kernel developer), Joe Brockmeier (openSUSE community manager), Dan Fry (vice president of open systems development at IBM Systems and Technology Group) and Karsten Wade (Fedora) , will discuss the role of community contributions to the OS movement.
JW Corbet’s editor-in-chief of LWN.net, along with Greg Kroah-Hartmann, Andrew Morton and Keith Packard, will discuss the Linux kernel and what will await us in the near future.
This event can be called a closed meeting of the best minds of Linux, including kernel developers, marketers, independent software developers , end users, system integrators and several other public organizations. This is the only conference aimed at combining such different business models, TSZAP initiatives, as well as free and closed software, free and paid distribution models into one forum for such discussions.
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The event will be held in conjunction with the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and the Linux Seminar - The Linux Storage and Filesystem workshop. Detailed information about these events here .
More information about the Linux Foundation event, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft is available in the press release compiled by the Linux Foundation. This is the third summit, which has been held since 2007. In 2007, the main bias was on drivers. In 2008, the topic of drivers was expanded, but the issues of Internet elasticity and virtualization were also considered.

What do you think will be the integrating link for the vendors of this meeting this year? And how do you see the future of the OS market? And yes, what about Apple? - from the author-translator.