[osol-mktg] LinuxWorld Boston and OSBC SF

[Laura Ramsey]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> 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--you said something really profound yesterday when we talked about 
this--you said--Sun was there, beating it's chest as always.
That's a really interesting perception --and so true of our natural 
corporate behavior. 

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