by ezs | Aug 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
Interesting post on LinuxWorld that I found on Slashdot.
Bernard Golden made two really telling comments in his column:
Firstly how the show attendee has changed over the last two years:
The crowd at LinuxWorld looked liked mainstream corporate IT workers, in comparison to previous LinuxWorlds, where nose rings and “interesting” hair dominated. A large proportion of the attendees dressed like corporate IT workers. From what I heard, most went to the show to get practical open source information. The conservatively-dressed folks in the commercial vendor booths provided just that.
This is very true. I was at LinuxWorld in August 2003 when Novell announced the acquisition of Ximian – decidedly 75% hacker/geek audience. This year way below 40%.
Second – on the ‘banishment of the .org community’:
The .org pavilion was banished to an upstairs mezzanine. This caused many attendees to miss it. I felt that it sent a message that the .orgs are unimportant. I think the .org pavilion should have been in the middle of the main show floor; but the producers put a large kiosk of PCs there instead.
I think the show producers had a lot of commentary on this during the pre-show and early show hours. Read my earlier post on the swing to recognise small community projects as best of show.
Final note:
I saw a fellow wearing a shirt with a familiar IT vendor logo. He was actually an actor, hired to stand in the booth and introduce the promotional video. The actor looked like a middle-tier product marketing manager: average height, wire frame glasses, reserved manner…a real faux-techie.
I’m sure I know which vendor this was – and it’s not Novell.
by ezs | Aug 15, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
Well – it was a busy week (hence no blogging).
ZENworks 7 Linux Management was nominated for a ‘Best of Show’ award – this year it looks like all of the judges awarded to small, non-commercial projects. ‘Best of Show’ for Systems Management went to the OpenNMS project – a small, recently revived monitoring project. It looks pretty good.
Kudos still goes to the extended ZENworks team for building a strong and vibrant product. There was a lot of interest from the attendees at the show.
by ezs | Aug 7, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
It’s time for LinuxWorld again.
ZENworks Linux Management has done well in the last year or so – winning a Product Excellence Award for systems management at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, August 2004 and again in Boston, February 2005
The challenge is how ZENworks 7 Linux Management fares this time – we are again shortlisted for an award.
ZENworks 7 Linux Management is a really innovative product – it will be good to see reaction from potential customers at the show.
The Novell engineering teams in Provo, Cambridge and Bangalore really made this a groundbreaking product – adding OS deployment, policy management, inventory and remote control to the already strong software and patch distribution capabilities.
by ezs | Aug 4, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m deep in preparation for BrainShare Barcelona right now – it’s just a few weeks away.
I’ll be posting photos and updates from the show.
by ezs | Aug 3, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Deja vu.
Old-style SE training comes round again. Most of the Category Specialists from North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific are here in Provo this week for training. (EMEA were trained a few weeks ago).
I’ve been in ZENworks training all week – competitive, roadmap, new product – and now ZENworks 7 Linux Management training run by my good friend Doc Hodges.
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