Linuxworld pix

[Tony Alfrey]

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:41 am, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On 08/10/2004 05:21 PM, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> >> Net Llama! wrote:
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> >>
> >> Wow ! Very nice pics ! Please do repost the report for the benefit
> >> of those who could not go there (like me !) ...
> >
> > i wish i could, but i didn't save it, just emailed it to the list.
> > sorry, but i'm not feeling motivated enough to retype a few hundred
> > words.  if you've got questions about the pictures, i'd be happy to
> > answer them though.
>
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Here is his report:

I attended LinuxWorld in San Francisco today.  This was the 4th 
linuxworld that i've attended, and overall I'd say its a huge success. 
Attendence felt like it was up from last year, as it was very crowded.

Notably absent was M$.  I guess they grew tired of me taking pictures of 
their banner under/above/beside the Restroom's sign.

The swag of choice this year seems to be t-shirts, with alot of vendors 
giving them away.  In fact, the bag that got handed to everyone upon 
arriving included a t-shirt from HP.  The contest prize of the year was 
an iPod, with at least 10 different contests making it the grand prize.

The big buzz was about Sun's rumored interest in buying Novell. 
Interestingly, Sun & Novell's uber-booths were beside each other.

Intel was trying their best to hype their Itanium & Xeon product lines, 
but AMD-64 was the big thing.  Intel's booth was about twice as large as 
AMD's, yet half as busy.

Novell was giving away the assortment of DVDs for free with 
9.1-Pro+more.  The buzz from SuSE was the upcoming release of SLES-9.

For the 2nd year, Dell had a large booth, but not much of a clue about 
Linux.  About a third of the boxes were running some flavor of windoze. 
  They were giving away a 1 -> 4 USB multiplexor for completing the same 
survey that they had last year.

Oracle & ComputerAssociates prolly had the 2 weirdest booths.  Oracle 
had what was supposed to be a giant igloo, and CA had a huge arch that 
kinda looked like the entrance to a giant igloo.

I'd say that Redhat's booth was one of the more disapointing.  It was 
huge, but really had nothing in it other than 4 kiosks with workstations 
running their latest stuff.

Pictures are here:
http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix/lwce


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Tony Alfrey
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