by ezs | Aug 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
An interesting article here – talking to Bill Hilf about Microsoft researching non-Windows server and desktop products:
Microsoft’s Linux and Open Source Software Lab serves as both a place to examine the threat posed to Microsoft products by open-source offerings and a venue for testing software from Microsoft and others that’s designed to span that divide. The lab is home to hundreds of servers and desktops that run dozens of different types of Linux and Unix.
Hilf has been pretty open about Microsofts investigation of Open Source and non-Windows technologies:
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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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