“Another sign of the acceptance of Linux in the enterprise and
beyond, the first ever Desktop Linux Consortium conference was held
outside of Boston this week, at Boston University’s Corporate
Education Center. Although widely covered in much of the specialist
and general media, most of the conference coverage has focused
exclusively on IBM’s embracing of Linux on the desktop for its
clients. That is a great headline, but it has overshadowed some
other good news from the conference. This report is a overview of
other parts of the conference and their newsworthy items. The
sessions ran concurrently and had some scheduling conflicts, so it
was impossible to visit all the breakout sessions. Some ran well
over their allotted time, due to attendees piling on the questions
to presenters.“The fact there is such thing as a Linux Desktop conference is
encouraging. This is doubly true when you consider the high caliber
of presenters and some of the new technology that previewed at the
conference. Most of the presenters focused on the enterprise angle,
which From my vantage point is 100% true. Most enterprise IT shops
have the UNIX skills and mindset to translate the advantages of
open source and Linux into better IT for their companies…”