SCALE

I get to speak at SCALE 09. My talk synopsis is here.

I am psyched. This will be an *excellent* group.

It will be our 2nd year at SCALE. Last year, we decided not to go, but heard so many good things about it from friends that we decided at the last minute that we “simply must attend”. We contacted Ilan, the uber organizer and he actually got us a table on the exhibitor’s floor with very little notice.

Within 48 hrs of deciding to go, we were in southern Cali with all our gear, ready to play.

We had a blast.

If you plan on going, feel free to use our registration code (it is made available for friends and customers). Code is ZAR7X and it gets you 40% off the registration cost.

I hope to see you there!

Linux Foundation End User Summit

I am in New York at the Desmond Tutu conference center’s main hall surrounded by stock exchange people, CEOs, CTOs, bank managers, and lots of big city, big business people. Our meeting is taking place in a large hall that looks exactly like the halls of Hogwarts, a long echoy hall with ornate woodwork, chandeliers, the tinkling clang of china plates and ornate silverware, the works.

At this moment I am listening to Jon Corbet, editor of LWN.net, One of his slides pointed out that we should :

“Avoid uncooperative companies”

I could see everyone around me going through the list in their minds of which companies that see as “uncooperative” in supporting Linux.

I won’t name any.