Novell BrainShare 2007: Time to Buy More T1s

Published: March 20, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Like many other Linux publications that do not have the time to fly editors to Salt Lake City to attend the BrainShare 2007 user and partner event put together annually by Novell, The Linux Beacon was prepared to cover it remotely thanks to the Internet. Novell provided a feed for the opening session on Monday, which included a clever spoof of the opening of Saturday Night Live, only with nerds instead of comedians, and complete with the Goo Goo Dolls as musical guests later this week at the show.

Just after the week's BrainShare events were outlined to the crowd at the opening session, Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president and chief executive officer, took the stage. "Many of you have asked, "Where is Novell going? And why is it heading there?" he said. And he spoke a few more sentences and then I got this screen:

After trying multiple machines--including a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 machine--and two different networks that I have in my office about a dozen times, I gave up. And then, after a few minutes, I un-gave up and tried one last time. And I got this message:

Warning: main(/opt/macromedia/fms/applications/huddle/huddle.conf)
 [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or 
 directory in /inet/www/docroot/huddle/inc/init.inc.php 
 on line 4

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 
'/opt/macromedia/fms/applications/huddle/huddle.conf' (include_path='.:') 
in /inet/www/docroot/huddle/inc/init.inc.php on line 4

Whatever Novell's top brass and partners said--Craig Mundie of Microsoft was set to speak, too--will have to wait until next week, if there are archives or transcripts.

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