[osol-mktg] LinuxWorld Boston and OSBC SF

[Jim Grisanzio]

Sara Dornsife wrote:
> Ben Rockwood wrote:

>> Also, I'm curious about what exposure we might have gotten this week 
>> at OSBC in SF.  I completely forgot about it happening. 
> 
> 
> It's still going on. Yesterday, Jonathan keynoted. Today there are 
> sessions going on. Jim is up there. Maybe he can give us recap when he 
> returns?

It was a pretty good show, but nothing surprising. I've been to three 
OSBCs. It was a bit smaller than last year, it seemed, but others 
disagreed. Schwartz announced GPL for OpenSPARC in his keynote, which 
seemed pretty popular and sparked some hallway conversations. Sun's Tim 
Bray and Bill Vass did press/analyst interviews and participated on some 
panels.

I didn't run any meetings or anything; I was just there to lurk the 
halls and talk to people -- an activity I highly recommend, by the way, 
even if you aren't doing any sessions or BOFs. People do notice.

I found a moderate level of interest in OpenSolaris, as well as the 
normal brain dead sarcasm about Sun in open source. OpenSolaris came up 
multiple times in multiple sessions, too. Clearly, more people knew 
about us this year. But it was a business show, not a developer 
conference. Lots of execs in suits pitching products, and more lawyers 
than I could count.

Oh, the wireless absolutely sucked but the food was great. I took some 
pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/sets/72057594065194745/

Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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