{"id":89,"date":"2006-04-10T22:35:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:32:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:32:39","slug":"loitering-linuxworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Loitering @ Linuxworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxworldexpo.com.au\">Linuxworld<\/a> conference and expo came and went a few weeks ago. If you&#8217;ve been reading my stuff you&#8217;ll know that I did go along. And yes, I was going to blog while I was there but you know the slight problems of writing, Internet access, blah, blah, blah, got in the way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Linuxworld entry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/linuxworld_main.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was held at the Sydney Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour, quite a popular venue for such conferences.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With my time split between the conference upstairs and the expo floor, it was difficult to determine exact numbers but it seemed pretty well attended. All the vendors were there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HP's stand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/linuxworld_hp.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHP managed to sever it&#8217;s ties to Microsoft for long enough to exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Novell's stand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/linuxworld_novell.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNovell was on its road to redemption.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red Hat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/linuxworld_redhat.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRed Hat really likes Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IBM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/linuxworld_ibm.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIBMers using Windows at their Linuxworld stand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sun\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/linuxworld_sun.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSun peddling Solaris at a Linux conference.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s not forget the community turn out. It was good to see Linux Australia and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osia.net.au\">OSIA<\/a> have stands of their own. It was also good to see some of the little Linux service providers get their marketing acts together. There&#8217;s a real future in that, believe me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeff Waugh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/jeff_waugh_la.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBut wait, here&#8217;s a sight I haven&#8217;t seen before! <a href=\"http:\/\/perkypants.org\/blog\/\">Jeff Waugh<\/a> talking and using a computer at the same time? Whoa, how about that!<\/p>\n<p>Congrats from all involved. Let&#8217;s hope there is one next year and it&#8217;s even bigger and better.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Australian Linuxworld conference and expo came and went a few weeks ago. If you&#8217;ve been reading my stuff you&#8217;ll know that I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,21,22,27,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","category-ibm","category-linux","category-marketing","category-open-source","category-sun","category-tech-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}