Brainshare crystal ball

By SysAdmin1138 on
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:
  • Zen Pulsar
  • OES2
  • SLES10/SLED10 sp1
  • Vista Compatibility
Top attendee gripe points (i.e. questions that'll be asked that are contrary to Novell's desired Brainshare spin):
  • 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).
There are some other topics that'll be covered a lot but are more evolutionary rather than Big! New! Things!
  • 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
Brainshare attendees have proven in the past that they're capable of booing keynotes speakers. I don't care that WalMart made Microsoft give them Linux certificates (heh heh heh, okay maybe I do), but that isn't enough to make the rank-n-file attendee keep mum when the compact is brought up. There is still bad blood over the killing of NetWare, so expect unpleasantness there as well.

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.

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