Chaos Communication Camp 2007: so far….

..so good.

Network performance is terrible and keeps on flooding. There seems to be a problem with spanning tree and various dhcp servers running within the network. The streams from both lecutre shelters are having some flaws but apart from that, the atmosphere so far has been great.

Meeting, talking and cooking with hackers from all over the world and the weather has been dry and very sunny.Parties are going on from dusk till dawn – it´s a small city that never sleeps.

CIO encounters Windows, OSX, Linux

Slashdot reported a long-term field test by John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and CareGroup regarding Operating systems in corporate environments on a notebook.

CIO Article

The power of Windows lies in its availability for niche business software, OS X and Ubuntu appeal to the usability and enterprise Linux systems such as Novell and RHEL focus on Windows like usability and are meant to fill the corporate Client/Workstation segment.

Regarding Linux strategies, enterprise solutions should be the first ones to take some market shares from Microsoft in the corporate segment.

Ubuntu is gaining more and more support due to its stable Debian base and its usability. Taking Ubuntu to the corporate sector seems very possibly but this may rely on further strategies of the Canonical Foundation.

here is the Ubuntu report

One thing regarding Debian: There may be some confusion to people jumping in the Linux sector regarding the Debian policy on non-free software. The fact is Debian is very attached to its roots in the GNU and the ideology of the Free Software Foundation which is a good sign in times where Linux distributors are contracting with Microsoft, the very company that states open source as something evil and a violation of individual intellectual property and tries to stop the growing success of Linux by fear mongering potential users by stating that Linux and Open Source violate several hundred Microsoft patents without delivering a proof.