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Hoosier Penguin: BrainShare: The Heart of Novell

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 19, 2007

“For the first time, I decided to attend Novell’s BrainShare
conference. In the past I have been resistant to attending
single-vendor sponsored shows, because once you attend one, you’d
better get yourself to others, if only to avoid bias. I was able to
get clearance for both BrainShare and Red Hat’s Summit in May, so I
figured I’d achieved my balance.

“The reason I wanted to attend BrainShare this year,
specifically, was to find out for myself if Novell was really a
Linux company, or if they were just talking the talk.

“Imagine my complete and utter surprise when I discovered I
didn’t need to actually attend the show to learn the answer…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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