On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:44 -0700 > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Notably absent this year was Google. Granted they're not really selling > > anything that is Linux specific, but they were there last year, and were > > quite popular. > > This is a down time for most companies. If they aren't planning on some serious > revenue coming from it, many companies are skipping trade-shows altogether. > NetScreen is taking to the road on a Semi with all their gear in the trailer for > demos...
Google is currently more profitable than ever. Lack of revenue definitely isn't the reason why they didn't showup. I don't know what Netscreen is. > > HP was once again rude. I wanted to play with their dual Opteron box, and > > the sales drone scolded me for touching the hardware without permission. I > > guess i missed the point of a trade show, if you can't actually play with > > the products being offered. > > Must have recognized you :p > Probably the sales guy new that his techno-weenie was inept enough that this > uberhacker (who they could tell knew what he was doing) might do something that they > couldn't undo... I dunno. They had the same reaction to my 'meddling' last year. I suspect that they just don't want anyone who isn't wearing a suit & tie to touch their hardware. Their loss. There were quite a few other hardware vendors who were quite happy & willing to let me poke around. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
