LinuxWorld Report, Day 2

greechneb writes "Roblimo is reporting again on LWCE's second day. Check out his reports on break dancers, hp, suse, gentoo, linux on laptops, and most important, free booze." See yesterday's story if you missed it. Some other LWCE notes: United Linux is sucking in more partners, and even Microsoft won one of the show awards. And yes, Robin is going around asking the interview questions. :)

MS?

[Anonymous Coward]

what's MS doing at a linux event? *gasp*

This is how Linux infiltrates the corporate world.

[Dr Caleb]

I thought this was a great quote:

"Idealistic? Sure. No big mental change, just a job at a company with a dress code. And not just a job, but now a management job, one with purchasing authority.

This is how Linux infiltrates the corporate world.

[snip]and were disappointed that Linuxworld was so corporate and offered so little in the way of schwag for kids like them.

Don't worry, guys. In just a few years you won't be complaining about all the business people at the local Linux show. You'll be those business people.

If people want to influence the way business makes decisions, become the person making the descisions.

That may be the key to getting Linux adopted in more places.

Conference Turnout

[Anonymous Coward]

I've noticed that the turnouts having dipped a bit over the past year have now got back to a relatively healthy level.

Let's face it though, it's all still a bun fight - how much real business is done through these shows that's not prearranged?

where's the booze

[CakerX]

someone mention free booze, I didn't see any!

Microsoft wins

[intermodal]

As much as I hate to say it, I'd say thats fair. what were the competition? I don't know. It probably consisted of dos2unix text file converter, Samba, and maybe something else or so. WINE sure doesn't cut that mustard. so I guess I've got to say, this shows that the judges had level heads and didn't discriminate.

Regardles, Viva Linux!

Microsoft - Services for Unix 3.0

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft - Services for Unix 3.0,
Nice getting an award for that.
Just like they had support for Novell, nice of Microsoft to include support for Novell, but wait!! after a while it was only used to upgrade Novell servers to NT servers?

asking for trouble

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty impressed that someone could still innocently write "sucking in more partners" in a slashdot story submission. Truly gives me hope.

Re:Microsoft wins

[bongoras]

you don't think samba is better? Samba is a revolutionary. I'm not sure Samba was part of the competition... Be that what it may, Samba is one of the most important open-source tools in the world, if you are are serious about Linux suceeding in the enterprise. Sure, it's not sexy, glamorous, or fun. The protocols all suck. No one likes SMB. But because of Samba, I can say to my boss ( who is a Microsoft minion all the way ), " I can save you $500 here by using Linux to share out that printer," and "oh, don't worry about Professor so-and-so who wants to use Linux, it gets along perfectly with NT," countering each objection to Linux entering our enterprise with a working, efficient, and cost-effective OPEN SOURCE solution. Samba rules.

Re:MS wins at Linux?

[bmajik]

what sucks about it ? I've used SFU 2.2, 3.0 beta, and 3.0 release. I love it. For putting a useful commandline environment on a w2k/xp box, nothing else comes close.

By software integration they mean...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the buying out all of smaller developers, right?

Resistance is futile.