Throngs of people flooded into the Moscone center in San Francisco to get a glimpse at what is new in the Linux world. Once again, the Linuxworld Expo came to the West Coast making a stop at the Moscone center in San Francisco August 5-7. The show floor was filled with a mix of software and hardware vendors. Somehow, I was not expecting to find so many hardware vendors at what is otherwise a show about simply an operating system. Editor's Note: Mr. Wread sumbitted this report the day after the expo, and it has been stuck in mailing list server purgatory.
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"...Microsoft had a couple of these large posters advertising Windows Services for UNIX. Somehow I don't think many of the attendees of LinuxWorld will be looking at this real seriously."
Well in that case, you would be quite wrong, actually...
One of just 10 winners, Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 took the Open Source Product Excellence Award for Best System Integration Software at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo [January 24, 2003].
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/news/awards/linuxw...
One of just 10 winners, Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 took the Open Source Product Excellence Award for Best System Integration Software at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo [January 24, 2003].
What's the betting that they bought that, just like they buy everything else?
Did anybody spot the God awful Dell comment in that article:
" I inquired as to whether there would be a desktop release of Dells running Linux any time soon... Their second response was that Microsoft was putting sufficient licensing pressure on Dell to make it less economical to sell Linux boxes than to just bundle Windows."
Looks like those monopoly lawsuits in the US really got paid off... I mean, really paid off. Damn those Freundian slips.
If MSFT is actually strong-arming Dell, then why is Dell selling plenty of Linux on their servers? (about 20% of their server boxes ship with Linux on them). Dell could easily put Linux on their desktop boxes also if they thought they would sell any. IIRC, they stopped doing this a while back precisely because they weren't selling, according to Michael Dell (maybe GNOME/KDE have improved enough over the past 1-2 years to deserve another shot, I don't know).
Not that MSFT needs any help from me to defend them or anything, but if you're going to bash them for something, you've got to do better than that around here.
Well the desktop market is a bit different to the server market.
The majority of desktops probably run what is installed on them at sale time. Therefore, selling Linux on desktops would impact on Microsoft.
Servers are bought to fill specialist needs. Since server licenses from Microsoft are extortionate, they cannot realistically make Dell sell all servers with MS Windows 20XX Server installed on them, as people who wanted non-MSified servers simply wouldn't go to Dell.
The cost of providing a Windows license on a desktop PC is negligible, though, so they can force Dell to sell only Microsoft-setup Dell desktop PCs as the few people who do want to install something else won't mind the few pounds hit.
going by that shot from Sun10 it would seem like they havn't got render fully ported into their Xserver let, seen that the text is not antialiased, then again it's a screenshot on a beta release, and it still looks alot better then CDE
doh! this is the problem about using mozilla-firebird and tabs ;-)
I was in SF during the dates of the show, too bad I missed it. Thanks for the report
Nicely written and with great photos. Couple of inescapable emotional Microsoft vs Linux comments in the article didn't much spoil it, but it would be better without them.