There were 157 attendees at this conference, representing 17 countries from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Most were from commercial organizations, but academia and government were also well represented. There was participation from leading software product line companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Philips, Robert Bosch, Avaya, Motorola, Cummins, Siemens, Ericsson, Thales, and General Motors.

The conference program included seven tutorials; seven workshops, including one that was focused on DoD product line practice; an inspiring keynote talk, “Global Software Product Lines and Infinite Diversity,” by Anders Heie from Nokia Mobile Phones; two panels; 24 technical paper presentations; four technical demonstrations; several birds-of-a-feather sessions; and the Second Software Product Line Hall of Fame, at which attendees voted in five new members to the software product line elite. This year’s winners included Bell Labs/Lucent/AT&T’s 5ESS, Cummins’s diesel engine control-system product line, Philips’s TSS, Market Maker Software’s Merger product line, and Boeing’s Bold Stroke avionics software.