Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (179 mails)

[Ian <ian.lynch2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 January 2002 15:05, Mark Evans wrote:
> > "Shallow people" will go for the glitz of the
> > Microsoft stand, which in terms of real estate is
> > predictably dominating. They are pushing some
>
> They were also the only company I found there who
> were leaping at people and trying to sell there
> stuff there and then.
>
> > A good day - low Linux presence :(

Best to save it until we can do something more impressive with more desktop 
users. We deliberately avoided BETT because I'm too busy getting real 
customers ;-)

I am thinking of organising a stand for BETT next year that would be a joint 
effort by a number of Linux parties eg SUSE, Mandrake, Redhat, and perhaps 
small companies from this list. If there is sufficient interest - and I 
believe now is the time to start planning - collective strength would be 
better. I also think that by next bet we will have several 10s of schools at 
least using Linux at the desktop and so it will have much more impact.

> Indeed one of the machines on the Fen System
> stand was running Windows.

I think you will find that that was to demonstrate thin client log on to a 
Linux server from a Windows machine. 

> I did notice one stand had a Cobalt Qube on
> it, also NTL are pushing the NetPilot...

I could have loaned Michael one to put on the stand :-).

Regards,

-- 
IanL