“Our report from the Linuxworld conference continues …”
“While the tradeshow floor occupies a finite space, the
number of companies represented seems infinite. I am beginning
to suspect I just haven’t yet discovered the second floor. It took
me until late yesterday to discover the .org pavilion! I plan on
talking with the folks from Debian, LinuxToday, User Friendly,
Linux Central (you get the picture) later today.”
“Acquisitions and mergers are becoming old (and often red) hat
to the Linux community. Quite frankly, my opinion on all the recent
acquisitons has changed. The large sums of money being thrown
around to acquire other companies is new to the community, but
unavoidable.”
“The coolest thing from the Hewlett Packard site involved a new
page set up specifically to assist people in locating the right
hardware and software for nearly anything. This is a collaboration
with Aalborg University in Denmark, and is a free technical support
service.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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