Nov 29
Tonight I received this e-mail. It’s an invitation to a session explaining the Novell-Microsoft deal from Novell’s side. I’m thinking of going, I’ll try to take some pictures or even videos. Either way, I’ll report back on what they say…
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FOSS Workshop - 7 December 2006 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:29:45 +0200 (SAST) From: Leigh Holt Reply-To: [email protected] To: Jonathan Carter Dear Jonathan *FOSS Workshop (7 December 2006)* The Novell Microsoft deal is causing ructions throughout the OSS community. Is this going to encourage companies to move to Linux, as Novell says, or is this a deal with the devil signifying the death of small OSS companies everywhere? Well, ask Novell yourself. Peter Hunter, Cape Regional Manager for Novell will deliver a presentation that will cover the key aspects of the agreement reached between Novell and Microsoft, as well as why Novell pursued such an agreement with Microsoft, and the implications of this agreement for customers and the open source community. If you have any thoughts you would like to share about the latest move in the OSS community, please be there and make yourself heard. We will also so be presenting our draft declaration for the FOSS Forum and would appreciate feedback on that also. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you feel would be interested, but be aware that seating limited, so RSVP soon. There will be a limited amount of time at the workshop for OSS companies to present innovative, new product offerings. Should you have an OSS product offering, please submit a short summary on the product and its relevance to the OSS sector to [email protected] and we will select companies to present their products at the workshop. If you have registered yourself for the event, well done! My apologies if you are receiving this invitation for a second time. *Programme* /08h00-08h30/ - Registration /08h30/ - Welcoming address Viola Manuel, Executive Director, CITI /09h00/ - Understanding the Collaboration Agreement between Novell and Microsoft Peter Hunter, Cape Regional Manager, Novell /09h45- 10h15/ - Tea break /10h15/ - Company presentations /11h15/* *- The FOSS Forum Viola Manuel, Executive Director, CITI /11h30-12h00/ - Discussion on ways forward for the FOSS Forum in 2007 *Event Details:* *Date:* Thursday, 7 December 2006 *Time:* 08h00 - 12h00 *Venue:* 44 Wale Street, Cape Town *RSVP:* email [email protected] , 021-409-7000 by no later than Tuesday, 5 December 2006
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In other local news: University IT chief vows to dump Novell
November 30th, 2006 at 8:36 am
I am VERY interested in what they will have to say, and would love to link to your report as soon as it is out, if you could email me when you publish it.
Don’t suppose any way you could do an ogg/mp3?
March 16th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
[…] I urge all Cluggers (and clug-park readers specifically (also JOCUAMAOE)) and the Ubuntu Loco team to attend and give Masie a run for his money. The last event I attended where he spoke, he just did his usual smooth-talking and people just stared at him, everyone thought he was talking nonsense, but didn’t think it was worth while even talking to him about it. I heard one media person say that his talk was well-received, afterwards. We shouldn’t give him a chance to get away with it again! What might also add some fuel to the fire, is that this is taking place at the University who vowed to phase out Novell completely shortly after the Microsoft/Novell agreement. […]