I’ll be giving the last talk at the Go Open conference in Oslo, Norway, on April 9. The conference starts the previous day and includes such cool open source speakers as Chris DiBona of Google and Simon Phipps of Sun. Most of the talks are in Norwegian, though mine will not be.ily reasons
Update: Unfortunately, my plans have changed for family reasons and I will not be attending the conference.
Neither will mine :-)
More interesting commercial news from the European Union here . Nothing to do with the ‘usual suspect’; but since IBM employs a significant fraction of the available engineering talent, and you’re going to need engineers to crack the problem, I’m sure IBM will be there somewhere.
“After a two-day summit in Brussels, leaders for the 27 nations said they hoped new legislation would be enacted in early 2009.”
So we’ll need a Copyright Lawyer. A Patent Lawyer. A Competition Lawyer.
And now a Climate Change Lawyer … a new speciality, but commercial laws have teeth, so we’d better have one to keep us on the right side of the new law. It will be an EU special, I’m sure the USA and China will have different versions to suit their various different concerns.
And then we’ll run the business the way we like.
OS/2 ? History, use Linux instead. Several here.
SmartSuite ? On the way down. Symphony will do nicely. SWG/AIM Beijing. No charge.
Do we compete ? I hope so, Lotus Notes brings home the bacon this year.
Is OOXML relevant in the new world ? Maybe not.