Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports from Novell’s Brainshare conference: “Heck, it’s hard to believe I’m writing “buzz” and Novell in the same sentence.”
Novell’s got the buzz: Linux
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Monthly Archives: March 2004
IBM: Roadmap from Windows to Linux
IBM has published a nine-part series on their website entitled “Windows to Linux: A roadmap for developers making the transition to Linux” aimed at developers. It’s not yet another boring step-by-step installation guide. It starts with “We’re assuming you already have Linux installed. ” and goes on from there to talk about the aspects of Linux development in nine chapers:
- Thinking in Linux
- Console crash course
- Introduction to Webmin
- User administration
- Linux logging
- Working with file systems
- Networking
- Backup and recovery
- Installing software
Looks like a great starting point.
MSN BlogBot coming soon, as soon as they figure out what it is
Scripting News links to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer: article hinting at the new “MSN Blogbot.” What they missed was the story. Instead of breathlessly reporting that they had no news but had heard the name of a possible new product, they should have reported what they saw: Microsoft launches a FUD attack. The Seattle PI reports:
MSN exec Yusuf Mehdi showed it briefly on screen during a conference on the Redmond campus today, along with MSN Newsbot, a news search engine also in development… Mehdi was pressed for time and moved on quickly, so he didn’t share many details about Blogbot.
What nonsense. He wasn’t ‘pressed for time,’ he had delivered his FUD payload and moved on. In a Microsoft controlled PR event, he showed exactly what he wanted, no more, no less, and left everyone guessing. He showed Microsoft’s hand just enough to let all the players know they were moving into the space, and they’d better put up their ‘For Rent or Sale’ signs now if they didn’t want to get run over. I hate it when Microsoft wags the dog like this. The press should know better.
Microsoft sympathizer!
CNET News.com features a snappy retort to a recent c|net columnist: “Microsoft sympathizer!“