[ossig] Linux Seminar Again

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, this was about more than a week ago, I didn't see too many of you there, 
so, this was what I saw....

I was actually late that day so, didn't know what when on on the first 
session. (more about that later) But the 2nd session was pretty much Linux 
bashing even though that was what they claimed they are not doing.  In all 
boils down to a few points

1) Linux is expensive, this is when they compare windows 2000 to RH enterprise 
edition. 
2) Linux lack intergration, they shows that windows platform come with 
everything from database, middleware to client software, while Linux lack 
such.. user must do it themselves. I am not sure I missed anything in the 
last few years, but since when does windows install everything from MS SQL to 
MS office by default? Intertingly enough, they compare this to debian.
3) there are linux viruses, they listed around 30 of them on one powerpoint 
slide. Many of them I have never heard of
4) You can't sell GPL software, it has to be give away FREE.
5) They also didn't forget the vulnerability list for linux compare to 
windows, 
6) And off course some chart showing windows 2000 is at least as stable as  
linux if not better. 

The 3rd session was something about windows security, by Jason Yuen, nothing 
new there, since I was really unconcern about this, I retire to the hallway 
to have a chat with ammar. 

The 4th session was about .net, no much linux bashing but mainly about they 
.net thing, featuring Tan Loke Uei, pretty much a marketing thing about 
.net...

 Lunch was OK.  And we get away with a windows security pack. They only thing 
useful I got out of the trip was a set of combination lock that come with the 
security pack. 

Oh yeah, I forget to mention, to punish me for attending the event, some 
higher order decided punish me by degrading one of my RAID 5 array that 
particular morning, which was the reason why I was late since I had to get an 
extra 36.7Gig HDD and rebuild my array. 

 


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