Linus & Maddog on panel with MS and DH Brown

Anonymous Coward writes " Linus and maddog will be on a panel, along with a Microsoft guy (Jim Ewel) and someone from DH Brown (Tony Iams). This will be in Atlanta at the AIIM '99 conference. " The actual date will be April 14, 9-10 AM.

Actually...

[Danse]

A study by D. H. Brown was used as a source for John Kirch's NT Server 4.0 vs. Unix Page [unix-vs-nt.org]. I don't know where they get their funding, so I can't say for sure whether they are objective or not, but this is at least one in their favor.

Otherwise a good article

[Robin Hood]

Actually, apart from Ewel's comments, the article was pretty good. They did a good summary of the history of Linux, giving credit to both RMS and Linus for their respective shares of the work. (I thought RMS started the FSF earlier than 1984, but that's the only mistake I found).
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Coverage?

[Pengveen]

Whoops.

Anyways, is there any coverage on-line for this? I want to listen in. How about a Real Audio feed?

Tag Team

[Juliet]

Ohhhh they should turn it into a tag team wrestling match!

Linux at the AIIM Show

[bsorensen]

The AIIM organizers were gracious enough to gift the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts a booth on the show floor. We will be answering questions and promoting Linux, the Atlanta Linux Showcase, and Linux International. If you're planning to come to the keynote panel, drop by and say hello!


--
Blake Sorensen
Registration and Volunteer Coordinator
Atlanta Linux Showcase 1999
USENIX Tutorials, October 12-13
Conference and Exhibition, October 14-16

Jim Ewel - watch for FUD

[Locutus]

More like a resugence of opposition to a dictatorship. Micros~1 = FUD. That is a given.
It is finding out who works for Micros~1 that
makes it difficult to seperate FUD from reality.

Locutus

FUD alert, but....

[Locutus]

I hated the article too, in all its incarnations around the Internet, but.... What I did notice was the last thing said was positive. OK, it was only couple of sentances but it was still positive. This is something that is never done in a piece published with a Micros~1 blessing. IMHO. Someone is probably in trouble for that but the fact is that it leaves a better taste in the mouth then if it was left out. Looks like D.H. Brown is going on the pole with DataQuest...

Locutus

FUD alert

[SoftwareJanitor]

No kidding... This article echos claims that Linux doesn't support SMP or syslog.

It also says that Linux is less suitable for general business purposes than any of the commercial UNIXes or even NT, without giving much of any details on what criteria were used to make that determination.

DHBrown

[Stalke]

How much do you want to bet that DHBrown is one of those "independant" computer institutes that is funded entirely by a certain redmond based company.

DHBrown

[Rombuu]

I'll bet you as much money as you'd care to lose.

Got any other unsubstantiated rumors you'd like to bet on?

reports...

[kevin lyda]

this is more a linuxtoday, or lwn.net thing, but it would be nice to get a report from a real tech perspective, and not just from the mainstream media. so if anyone's going, it would be nice to get some detail.

i think in some ways it's nice to see, especially in light of esr and bruce parens little war of words. it will be a nice example of parens "hydra" marketing approach - both linus and john representing linux (and free software) instead of a single esr.

and no offense to esr, but i think linus and john will make a better impression. as opposed to the rms and esr approach to marketing (weird outfits, and outrageous statements), this pair will present a very toned down yet persuasive message for people to consider. not so much "in your face" as "in your head."