Just got back. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do a full summary, but I can make a few points:
1 - As expected it was much more commercial and less technical than in the past. 2 - The general feeling was no longer that someone has to prove that Linux is here to stay. It's now obvious :-) 3 - Most lectures were really trying to sell services. 4 - Benny (?) Davidovitch of the Davidovitch bakery explained why his business has moved almost totaly to Linux and mentioned that when users (who were used to Windows) asked questions about the new interface, he told them it was a "top secret" test version of Windows 97. That made everyone happy and he's had no complaints since. 5 - Eli Marmor, Shoshana Forbes and Yonatan ben Avraham "introduced" OpenOffice 2.0. Amazingly, Eli and Shoshana were the only speakers to actually use Linux for their slides (and, of course, for Shoshana's demo of new OO features). All other speakers used Powerpoint :-(. Despite a minor "glitch" at the beginning of Eli's presentation, he made a good recovery and Shoshana's demo was very convincing (although I'm admittedly not impartial). 6 - Aside from Davidovitch and the OpenOffice presentation, nobody seems to care about the desktop - all the emphasis was on servers. Ness declared that they are entering the market with the intent of supplying and supporting only servers, SGI spoke about 10,000 CPU clusters, Novel obviously put most accent on databases, etc, etc, etc. On Tuesday 01 November 2005 10:29, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > If anyone who attended go-linux today feels like writing a short > summary of what transpired, it will be appreciated. > > Terminally curiously yours, > Muli -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
