“I had an abbreviated schedule here on Day 4 as the main phase
of Brainshare 2005 drew to a close. BrainShare will continue
Thursday and Friday, but the press and the outside vendors will be
gone. It’ll be quality time for Novell and its customers. So I’ll
use the occasion to provide a wrap-up of the conference rather than
another daily summary.“I struck up a conversation with yet another Novell customer at
breakfast this morning. He was thrilled with the company’s move to
Linux and commented: ‘I think Microsoft should really begin to
worry about Linux with Novell behind it.’ I told him about the
truck I had seen towing the MS billboard around the Salt Palace
earlier in the week, and he laughed, saying, ‘That truck driver
better not get too close to this crowd…'”
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