Since I went to this and ate their food I might as well say a little about what happened. I know that some other people who attended also read this list so maybe you can comment also (you know who you are ;-). Obviously it was a lot of marketing talk but here are a few things that I thought you might be interested in: - There were about 125 people in attendance, about twice what anyone expected. - Novell and IBM are currently in the process of converting ALL their desktops and servers to Linux. - Novell is porting their Netware filesystem to Linux but it will not be open sourced. - The acquisition of SuSE is being complicated by politics because SuSE has been a strong supporter of KDE but since Novell bought Ximian, that is what they are supporting. - The laptop that the slide presentation was given from was running Linux and it was the marketing guy's machine, not just a laptop that they use to impress Linux people. He was using Ximian's version of OpenOffice. - IBM is pushing VMWare as a way to consolidate servers. - The breakfast wasn't very good but the lunch was very good! - I got them to mention the TCLUG and give out the URL. - They gave new laptops to everyone who attended. Yea, right. Clay Fandre wrote: > I was asked by our local Novell rep to forward this on to the list. > I know, it is probably a lot of sales and marketing fluff, but it > might be worth checking out. And maybe pass it on to your > pointy-haired boss. > > -- Clay > > Novell and IBM have over 100 business signed up for the first public > push toward Linux. Please visit the following > http://www.novell.com/linux/seminar.html and pick Minneapolis to sign > up. Take a look at the agenda I think you will find it useful. I > look forward to you attending. -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list