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Re: LinuxWorld Show...where's the beef?

Subject: Re: LinuxWorld Show...where's the beef?
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>
To: John Posada <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:27:42 -0500

John Posada wrote:

Hi, guys...just got back from a spin around the floor of the LinuxWorld
show in NYC.

My overall impression...

Where's the beef?!

Linux gotta stop spending so much time talking about the OS and OS
management tools and start talking about real live applications that
happen to run on Linux.

I found almost no vendors with applications for creating new stuff,
almost no content management or authoring. Everything was monitoring
Linux, intrusion detection, database replication, usage monitoring.
All this is great...but without work being done on it, there is nothing
in the database to replicate, nothing to steal once I get in, and no
users to monitor.

Just my opinion and I'm probably wrong.

There is a dearth of desktop app vendors, (I found only two,) but the tools for developing abound. There were discussions about cross platform integration, fat vs. thin clients and security/ The emphasis was on enterprise applications. e.g. www.pgatour.com. I think it telling that those who were using laptops to take notes, were mostly using Word and in most of the presentations I saw, the speakers augmented with PowerPoint. If you get an honest guy talking off the record, you will have an admission that Linux still isn't ready for prime time.


--
Peter

Sisyphus had it easy




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