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