Re: NetWare Rants

I'm sorry to hear that your Brainshare experiance did not live up to what 
you expected. However I don't consider that Brainshare itself is at fault.
The core issue is that you (like a lot of other customers) are unhappy 
with Novell's decision on the future of NetWare.
Brainshare is a conference which is always mainly targeted on new 
technology. E.g. new products that were released over the previous year, 
or products that are soon to come.
The "poor" coverage of NetWare at Brainshare simply reflects that
there 
has been no new NetWare version over the last few years and no new version 
is to be expected int he future (except for the virtualized version 
running on Xen which was a topic of some sessions).
All in all, Brainshare is just a reflection of Novell's strategy for the 
future. The reason you were unhappy with Brainshare is because you are 
unhappy with Novell's current product strategy.

-- 
Marcel Cox

I tend to generally agree with your comments.

Brainshare as I experienced it in past years was always a GREAT show.
Despite the disagreement some/many have about Novell's direction, we need to 
*distinguish* between Brainshare as a conference and our displease about 
Novell's direction. Brainshare SLC is and has always been the *greatest* and 
*best-organized* technical conference of the year, with *rich* content, 
excellent hospitality, and enjoyable evening events. A lot of effort and 
work is placed by Novell to make Brainshare such an experience, and that is 
very appreciated.

That's why *thousands of folks look forward to it every year, and enjoy the 
famous countdown. This is also the great disappointment I, and I believe 
many others, have experienced, when they could not make it this year, and 
maybe also for the future, due to the *drastic* change in content.

I recall that Brainshare 2003 was 100% dedicated to Netware and the related 
line of products running over NW (and some ZEN sessions over W2K).
I still recall that Brainshare 2004 was also almost 100% Netware and only 
very few low-end sessions about Linux.
Brainshare 2005 displayed a much higher Linux content figure, however the 
feeling was still that Netware related sessions were dominant.

Now from such a level of Netware dominated Brainshares to a *NULL* Netware 
Brainshare in just one year is a *traumatic* and *shocking* transition to 
many Netware fans, who had other hopes and expectations about continuing the 
TRADITION of attending their BELOVED annual technical conference. For me 
personally, the annual Brainshare experience is probably gone. That doesn't 
make Brainshare a bad conference, I believe it will continue to be the 
greatest conference of the year, however it has become irrelevant to me.


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Z V I K A     D A V I D O W I T Z



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"Marcel Cox" <cimetmc@myrealbox.com> wrote in message 
news:NUl1g.2584$sd1.332@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com...
> I'm sorry to hear that your Brainshare experiance did not live up to what 
> you expected. However I don't consider that Brainshare itself is at fault.
> The core issue is that you (like a lot of other customers) are unhappy 
> with Novell's decision on the future of NetWare.
> Brainshare is a conference which is always mainly targeted on new 
> technology. E.g. new products that were released over the previous year, 
> or products that are soon to come.
> The "poor" coverage of NetWare at Brainshare simply reflects that
there 
> has been no new NetWare version over the last few years and no new version

> is to be expected int he future (except for the virtualized version 
> running on Xen which was a topic of some sessions).
> All in all, Brainshare is just a reflection of Novell's strategy for the 
> future. The reason you were unhappy with Brainshare is because you are 
> unhappy with Novell's current product strategy.
>
> -- 
> Marcel Cox
> http://support.novell.com/forums 

Zvika Davidowitz wrote:

>Now from such a level of Netware dominated Brainshares to a NULL Netware 
>Brainshare in just one year is a traumatic and shocking transition to many 
>Netware fans

I don't know how you can make such claims. You were not even present at 
Braishare this year. Claiming that it was null NetWare Brainshare is plain 
and simple not true. I really don't see how you can have the authority to 
comment on the actual content of this year's Brainshare. You were not 
there, so please stop making these kinds of uneducated claims.

-- 
Marcel Cox

"Marcel Cox" <cimetmc@myrealbox.com> wrote in message :
>>Now from such a level of Netware dominated Brainshares to a NULL Netware

>>Brainshare in just one year is a traumatic and shocking transition to
many 
>>Netware fans
>
> I don't know how you can make such claims. You were not even present at 
> Braishare this year. Claiming that it was null NetWare Brainshare is plain

> and simple not true. I really don't see how you can have the authority to 
> comment on the actual content of this year's Brainshare. You were not 
> there, so please stop making these kinds of uneducated claims.


I am making this claim according to the session catalog I reviewed before 
deciding not to come.
If there was more about Netware than that one session about virtualizing 
Netware over XEN, then that should have been *clearly* *visible* in the 
public session catalog.

If you look back at the threads in this forum from the Jan-Feb time period, 
you should observe that there were quite a few people asking questions about 
the availability of Netware sessions, and they repeated their posts a few 
times, addressing their posts also to Brandon, however those posts remained 
*UNANSWERED*.  What other conclusion is possible?

If in reality, while attending the conference, there were a few more Netware 
related sessions, then clearly Novell took every effort to hide them from 
potential attendees reviewing the public session catalog or addressing their 
concerns in this forum. But that is marketing, of course - one of Novell's 
strongest keypoints .....

From reading some of the post-conference comments made by others in this 
forum, I read other posts (one of which you were responding to) from 
attendees that were present at the conference this year, expressing 
disappointment about the lack of Netware sessions and lab experts at 
Brainshare 2006. So, this is a point we would have to agree to disagree 
upon.

When the post-conference DVD is made available at the NovellGear shop I do 
intend to purchase it, and look for evidence of Netware remains in the 
official slides, if I can find any.



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