03.11.06

LinuxForum 2006: Business-friday

Posted in Geeky at 16:22 by djn

On the business friday, I attended several talks:

  • Louis Suarez-Potts talking about migration to OO.org — Louis is very well-spoken and it was fun hearing his talk. Although it seemed that he was preaching to the already converted.
  • Bent Jensen talked a little about Ingres RDBMS as Open Source. This talk really reminded me why the friday is called Business-friday. Very boring and mostly about how the “new” ingres company is so good a partner.
  • Peter Lind Damkjær talked about OpenOCES. Peter works at TDC as a PKI specialist and is a member of the OpenOCES coordination group. Very interesting to hear a little about the organisation of a Open Source project like OpenOCES.
  • Christian Givskov from IBM talked about 64-bit power and Virtualization. Christian gave a very enthusiastic talk about how well the “worlds best CPU, the Power5+” performs, scales and handles virtualization.
  • Martin von Haller gave a talk about some Danish legalese with regards to Open Source software and solutions. I found this talk very informative.
  • Flemming G. Jensen from ValueObjects talked about practical applications of clustering file systems for Linux. The title was very alluring but the talk was below par. Very shallow and not very concrete about anything.

Also, as this was the business day, there was free coffee, bottled water and lunch.

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