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LinuxWorld Report, Day 2
greechneb writes "Roblimo is reporting again on LWCE's second day. Check out his reports on break dancers, hp, suse, gentoo, linux on laptops, and most important, free booze." See yesterday's story if you missed it. Some other LWCE notes: United Linux is sucking in more partners, and even Microsoft won one of the show awards. And yes, Robin is going around asking the interview questions. :)
That must be a large typo. Did MS really win at a "linux" conference? should be: "Most damaging company"
free booze and break dancers?!?!? i guess that beats balmer dancing around like an idiot for 5 minutes. yet more proof that linux is cooler than M$.
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Lap dancers and free booze? I'm there! ...Huh? Break dancers? Oh, never mind.
Why Microsoft was right about Linux
" Linux on Intel-based computers is now likely to become the dominant platform in corporate data centers, according to a recent report from investment bank Goldman Sachs. That puts even more pressure on Microsoft to persuade Unix users to stick with its Windows operating system on Intel systems rather than move to Linux. (That's no easy feat these days.) Indeed, if it fails to stop the groundswell, Microsoft may be forced to radically rethink its strategy as none of the company's server platform products now run on Linux. One scenario offered by analysts at First Boston has Microsoft switching gears and supporting Linux on key subsystems like Exchange and SQL Server and the .Net framework. And then there's the IBM factor to consider." Not much new there, but some details in the article ARE new and interesting.
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Drove down from NH wednesday, went to the show yesterday with my brother [who lives in NY]. Not like going to trade shows back in the big boom days (read as not much free stuff), but still pretty fun.
... now that it's been hacked to run Linux I didn't feel too much pain in my soul. My brother refused to come within 5 feet of the booth.
... I dunno, anyway
.org rocked and was way better overall. Got my GNU shirt. Even applied for the Linux credit card because of the hot chicks shilling.
... guess it took to long to install *grin*
Odd things I noticed:
although there were tons of Linux Journals, SysAdmin's and C/C++ mags, Dr. Dobbs was empty all day. Either everyone else reads it or they only sent a dozen to the show.
Saw _several_ SGI ALtix's, even got a picture of me standing next to them. Even though they've gone to the dark side [x86] they were very friendly and had a nice booth.
Ximian had the best booth by far, the whole jungle theme rocked. Unfortunately they were right next to Microsoft.
Speaking of, the were tre chic in black long sleeve shirts and jeans. I admit that I dropped my business card in the fishbowl for a chance to win a free Xbox
Sun was awesome. Got DVD's of Solaris 9 for both x86 and Sparc. They've sold out and gone x86 as well, but I still have a thing for old Sparc SBUS boxen.
The LPI test was ok. suitably hard enough.
I went prepared to be impressed by RedHat, but was sorely let down. Very corporate. Very stand-offish IMHO. Too bad, I would love to move to nice, warm, NC and get a job there.
SUSE has a great booth, with an absolutely gorgeous girl there. Best of the show, unfortunately they were also close to SCO, who had a huge booth. Even _I_ refused to get within 5 feet of the SCO booth. At least M$ has a track record, these guys
Not a SINGLE booth offering CD's, except for the aforementioned Sun and NetBSD.
the Icculus guy was great.
Wish the Debian booth had more stuff
Last but not least, the Linux Journal folks were really nice and went out of their way to take care of us and make us feel good.
There were definately some geeks out on Thursday, don't know about Wednesday, but I saw quite a few.
All in all a good time, hope I'll go next year. I'm still pawing through my 2 bags of goodies.
"A: Stick your finger down his throat."
Unfortunately, this is backwards, GNU == Dentrassi
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff