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Novell Cancels BrainShare Conference

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-before-it-could-buy-beer dept.

A.B. VerHausen writes "While OSCON and SCALE organizers ramp up plans for their events, Novell shuts down BrainShare after 20 years, citing travel costs and budget tightening as main concerns. 'Instead of the traditional in-person conference, Novell plans to offer online classes and virtual conferences to make education and training available to more people at a lower per-head cost to companies,' says the news story on OStatic.com."

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  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First post, bitches! HAHAHAHHAHAHA ... ahhh, first.

    1. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I envy you.

    2. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey Slashdot, did you know that for a certain group of us ACs our only pleasure in life is getting first posts.

      Here we sit in the nursing home, in wing-back chairs to prop-up our ageing heads when we fall asleep, pressing F5 on our Asus Eee PCs' browser windows.

      We often sit here all day, and all evening, then occasionally one member of the group will scrabble as furiously as his arthritic hands will allow, typing out a first post on Slashdot. The two posts you see here:

      First post, bitches! HAHAHAHHAHAHA ... ahhh, first.

      And:

      I envy you.

      Were written by Arthur (veteran of Malaya and India) and Norris (Suez veteran) respectively. Although our first post rantings occasionally filthy, please don't mod us down too hard, we really don't have anything else to do (apart from trying to look down nurse Crochtihngler's uniform).

  2. The by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What

  3. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We use a Novell back end for file and print services. You know it's all half-assedly based on Suse Linux now, right? Novell dropped Netware last year, I think. Almost all of last year's Brainshare was about half-assed Linux. Good times, I'm sad to see it go.

    There, fixed that for you...