"'What do you think of the show?' This is the question I heard all week at LinuxWorld here.
"It turns out that many of my journalist peers, a few speakers and a number of vendors weren't as impressed by the show as I was.
"This was the year when neither HP nor IBM had a booth on the exhibit floor. Many people I spoke with mentioned their absence. But I'm a journalist, and had the benefit of being pre-briefed by both IBM and HP, and I even attended an HP VIP event on the opening night of the show..."