In answer to your money question: don't worry, and watch this space... In the words of Baldrick ,I have a cunning (evil in MS terms) plan. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Dawkins To: Matt Johnson Cc: SuSe Sent: 1/11/02 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] BETT
Did I miss some stands? I could only find Michael Brown's Fen Systems stand. Were SuSE there? Were anyone else there? Perhaps I had my eyes shut - I didn't get round all of it.
I got round most of it, and was upset - there was less Linux than last year. Only Michael really. The man at the IBM stand had heard of Suse but wasn't sure about it. There was one Cobalt Qube, and there was NetBSD on the Precedence stand, and of course a few other stands (such as Atomwide) were powered by OSS servers. It is unfortunately very expensive to lay on a BETT stand, but it is really the premier UK education event. I was approached by many software sellers, most of whom were bemused when I asked them for a KDE version. One salesman selling software based on IIS/ASP had never heard of Apache and clearly didn't believe me when I said it powered more web sites than IIS, because he knew that Microsoft had 90% of the market. I think we need to rally behind Michael, Ian and Roger for next year. There needs to be a bigger presence, with more oomf - in particular, with an expensive line so external sites can be demonstrated. In this respect I think a few wireless portables could be extremely useful. I was carrying a Nokia 9210 and was able to demonstrate my site while on other people's stands - very useful indeed on two occasions. With two stands cleverly located we might cover a good 50% of the area, and the battle can be carried into the opposition's territory. Like looking up, live, the statistics for Apache vs IIS servers. But where are the funds and man^H^H^Hpersonpower going to come from? -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698/821076 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com