[Charlug] posscon

[Bob Evans]

Well, certainly the Fedora/Red Hat advocates(3)  outnumbered any other Linux
advocates(0) in the speaker category. The closest in speaker count numbers
were employees of Blue Cross in Columbia, touting their zSeries
implementation of Linux.

(zSeries =3D IBM mainframe)

Some of you might remember IBM's demo of that little trick several years ago
at a LUG meeting at CompUSA on South Blvd. We tried it at BOFA, too...

So the nineties have officially arrived at Blue Cross. Good to know...

Regarding your other comment, about Red Hat in 3-5...

The likelihood of there being a discrete OS, other than in firmware, in 3-5
years seems highly unlikely.

But we'll see.


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Leam Hall <leam at reuel.net> wrote:

> Not sure how you see it a Red Hat event. Greg DK pretty much did what he
> did at BarCamp Charlotte, and the one Keynote by the RH CIO wasn't enough=
 to
> get you going.
>
> It was a Collegiate event for people who are new to or maybe even on the
> fence about Open Source. Red Hat was just a bit player.
>
> I think RH will be a major enterprise player for at least 3-5 years and
> eliminate most of the commercial Unices.
>
> More later, breakfast calls...
>
> Leam
>
> Bob Evans wrote:
>
>> I actually talked myself out of going, opting for family time. I was IN
>> THE
>> PARKING LOT when I realized that this was not something I really care
>> about
>> any more.....
>>
>> Looking over the sponsors,it was essentially a Red Hat event.
>>
>> I'm not anti-Red Hat. I just don't see them being the future of software,
>> open or otherwise. They've certainly had a degree of success courtesy of
>> the
>> open source world, so I guess they feel obligated to hold these things...
>>
>> It WAS a nice drive, though. And a beautiful day...
>>
>> -be
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Leam Hall <leam at reuel.net> wrote:
>>
>>  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 w=
as
>>> aimed at "why is Open Source okay". True material but not what I had be=
en
>>> 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 enterpri=
se
>>> 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?
>>>>
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