[oclug] OLS: Reception Talk Summary

[charles.macdonald at hrdc-drhc.gc.ca]

From: "Ian! D. Allen" <idallen at freenet.carleton.ca>
 
> I took some quick notes during the first talk at the OLS reception on
> Wednesday.  Here's what I wrote down (all the highlighted phrases are
> exactly from my notes):
> 
>    "We are *customer-driven* and *solutions-oriented*.  We 
> make a *serious
>     effort* to *move architecture forward* using *dynamic feedback*.
>     As a *good citizen* we *understand the community*, *behave like
>     the community*, and *go after markets* by *riding that wave* to
>     *market specific capabilities*.  We *horizontalize* the *ecosystem
>     drive forward*, generating *big wins* in the *mature ecosystem*
>     and delivering *solutions to end users*."
> 
> I think that about sums it up.
> 

As I recall, the gentleman from Intel also arranged to have their logo posted all over the room.  Mad Dog's speech was much more useful.. BUT also pointed out that the marketing phase of the revolution has begun.

At least IBM admitted that there free food (darn good food too) was a bribe to get us to listen to the talk about Grid Computing.