For those interested: Steve Dawes PH: (403) 268-5527. Mailto: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca -----Original Message----- From: OpenSource@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:OpenSource at bdcimail.com] Sent: 2002 February 13 10:12 AM To: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca Subject: RUSSELL PAVLICEK: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com, Wednesday, February 13, 2002 ======================================================== RUSSELL PAVLICEK: "The Open Source" InfoWorld.com ======================================================== Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OPEN FOR BUSINESS Posted February 8, 2002 01:01 PM Pacific Time THE RECENT LinuxWorld in New York was the scene of some startling revelations regarding the state of open source. Last summer's show in California showed that Linux wanted to do business in the enterprise. But at this LinuxWorld, Linux looked like nothing but business in the enterprise. The bouncing balls, flashing lights, and loudmouth magicians were few and far between. The trinkets, baubles, and T-shirts were in short supply. Instead, everywhere you looked, someone was trying to make a sale. But these sales were not like those at conferences past. No one was hawking cheap Linux CDs or tins of caffeinated penguin mints. Even the boxed Linux distributions were in fairly short supply. This time the sales targets were much bigger. Did you need a server? No problem. Plenty of vendors were showing servers. Wanted something bigger? You were in luck: There was plenty of meat to eat on that bone. Intel and AMD were both there in force. Intel in particular had a very big booth featuring the IA64 and related technologies.
