Monday, February 05, 2007
Brainshare crystal ball
I'm sure I'll make more posts like these as we get closer to the week, but here is my stab at the hot topics of Brainshare 2007.
Top tech topics:
What am I looking forward to? See the list of top topics, except for possibly 10sp1 all of those are ones I'm going to be looking into in some detail. Will I be taunting the Microsoft boothies? No, I have more respect for them than that. I do expect to be embarrassed by my fellow attendees at several points, but I'm still looking forward to a very informative Brainshare this year.
Top tech topics:
- Zen Pulsar
- OES2
- SLES10/SLED10 sp1
- Vista Compatibility
- Novell/Microsoft deal (I do not want to be the booth staff for the MS booth at Brainshare, they should get hazard pay. When mentioned during a Keynote, there will be booing).
- Where is the NetWare (a theme continued from previous years).
- Will it run on NetWare (lots of new stuff this year, and all of it runs on not-NetWare, see previous gripe).
- 64-bit everything.
- Virtualization
- 10sp1 introduces a newer Xen setup, but still no supported Windows VMs that I've heard.
- Groupwise 7
- Identity Management
- Even More Open Source
What am I looking forward to? See the list of top topics, except for possibly 10sp1 all of those are ones I'm going to be looking into in some detail. Will I be taunting the Microsoft boothies? No, I have more respect for them than that. I do expect to be embarrassed by my fellow attendees at several points, but I'm still looking forward to a very informative Brainshare this year.
Labels: brainshare, novell