Bill Carico is president of ACTS, a consulting and software firm. He specializes in IT strategic planning and technology forecasting. He is a sought-after speaker who  lectures worldwide on a number of IT and management topics. He is an open source evangelist who runs his software business using Linux on the mainframe (hosted by Infocrossing). His technical specialty areas include Enterprise Architecture, security, system internals and diagnostics, system performance, multi-processor design, automated operations, and server consolidation.