[Charlug] posscon

[Leam Hall]

Well...

After being slightly numbed by all the "thank yous" up front I started 
to nod during the first keynote. The business track I attended in the AM 
was aimed at "why is Open Source okay". True material but not what I had 
been hoping for.

Spent a little time handing out swag for Fedora, answering questions and 
doing a little bit of encouraging. Joined in a conversation helping a 
newbie over lunch, and that was about it. Hopefully the developers track 
was more useful to the attendees. After musing, munching, and going over 
the remaining schedule I put time with family over time listening to 
stuff I already knew.

I'd love to hear from businesses that are significantly open source and 
how they integrate everything together. After so many years in the 
enterprise level game and seeing so many millions of dollars wasted on 
tools that don't interoperate I'd like to see someone speak about real 
business use of open source and real cost savings. One speaker seemed 
happy that the use of a dozen or so open source tools saved $100,000. 
Great! I've doubled that with a few lines of Bourne shell in just the 
right spot.

Hopefully the June conference is better.

Leam

Bob Evans wrote:
> So... did anyone go to this thing?
>