OSCON 2007
Posted in Technicalon Jul 26, 2007
Well, OSCON 2007, the open source conference of the year, is over, and like two previous years, I walked through the exhibit hall and attended a few of the free lectures. I thought this years even wasn’t quite as great as last years even, but still pretty good.
Intel stole the show, but not because of hugely fabulous new open source advancements, but because they spent the money. They had the biggest booth and gave away free icecream. They did have some need things about threading that was interesting and important with multi-core processors flooding the market.
O’Reilly, the publishing company who sponsors OSCON, also had a much smaller presence then they have had previous years.
I did get a reasonable number of t-shirts, pens, and other free stuff. In particular, I picked up a little book about operating systems according to OpenSolaris which I of course find interesting because I’m taking an operating systems class right now.
Another thing that disturbed me was how many perl programming jobs there were on the job board. I think people should move away from perl for enterprise because of its difficulty to maintain. I guess this is just a side note.
I actually thought that Sun had one of the best booths around, because they had a lot to talk about as far as open source goes, although I’m not sure how much of it I found interesting. I did not see that they had any presentations about OpenOffice.org, which I think was disappointing at best, and worrisome at worst.
Another thing that I thought was interesting was who wasn’t there. Some of the places that made kind of a splash last year like MindTouch/OpenGarden and OpenLaszlo didn’t even bother to show up. Other big open source names such as the Apache Foundation and the Kernel developers I’m sure had people there, they just didn’t have a booth, which is too bad.
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