No Nvidia. No ATI. One half the Moscone Conference Center, and in reality, only loosely arranged in that half. And the mood was upbeat only at the AMD and Intel booths, where their competition heasts things up. Most presentations were either embarassingly overamped or packed with already common features and/or knowledge. The Expo basically shows that Linux has passed from the creative to the corporate style meaning that the exhibitions turn largely into Sales Events as opposed to information stages.
Is Linux ready for its corporate stage? Sure, we got yer device drivers, yer kernel patches, etc. that make it LOOK corporate, but when the big folks (Sun, Mac, IBM, etc.) knock on the door and look in, it seems to me like they'll take a few pictures, shrug and leave, and go home to punch up their own OS's, leaving Linux as a sort of OS museum piece. Hmmmm.
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Yeah, I've had to rewire my brain to accept the fact that some of the best Unix-flavor sysadmins are women. The 21st is a tough century...
No Nvidia. No ATI. One half the Moscone Conference Center, and in reality, only loosely arranged in that half. And the mood was upbeat only at the AMD and Intel booths, where their competition heasts things up. Most presentations were either embarassingly overamped or packed with already common features and/or knowledge. The Expo basically shows that Linux has passed from the creative to the corporate style meaning that the exhibitions turn largely into Sales Events as opposed to information stages. Is Linux ready for its corporate stage? Sure, we got yer device drivers, yer kernel patches, etc. that make it LOOK corporate, but when the big folks (Sun, Mac, IBM, etc.) knock on the door and look in, it seems to me like they'll take a few pictures, shrug and leave, and go home to punch up their own OS's, leaving Linux as a sort of OS museum piece. Hmmmm.