I’ll be the first to admit that my DEN:BOS:DEN:NY:DEN itinerary was less than ideal, but I really hadn’t digested just how asinine my plans were until I groked the fact that after returning home at midnight on Wed I had to be back at the airport 7 the next morning (in my defense, my kit was happy to see me, if only for a few hours). Somehow I had misled myself into believing I was leaving midday rather than first thing in the AM – big mistake. You know you’re in trouble when you’re eyeing spots in the economy lot as you pick up your car b/c you know you’ll be back in a few hours – it reminded me of some evil days as an SI where the USA Today arrived outside my hotel room before I did. So the next time I plan back to back itineraries, someone do me a favor and remind me how I just dozed off while typing.
Right now I owe you a second day OSBC account and – more interesting to a lot of you, I suspect – some thoughts on this event which I was lucky enough to attend. Unfortunately, both will have to wait as I’m about to head home via Dulles. While I booked my return trip by selecting the longest layover available to me in connecting flights, what do you think the odds are I get home on time? For those of you not familiar with my travel luck, I highly recommend you not take that bet.
Anyhow, I’ll be heading right back out again Monday morning for a quick swing to San Fran/Santa Clara, and I’m going to have to work most of Sunday, but right now my plans involve nothing more significant than sleeping till noon tomorrow.
James Governor says:
November 5, 2005 at 8:43 am
ummmm…. ok dozy…
ass-inine? prolly… 😉
James McGovern says:
November 7, 2005 at 4:57 am
Bet you didn’t know that John and I talked several hours after the panel and not one but several folks discussed with him business plans they are working on to pursue open source in the insurance vertical.
There is more appetite for such a thing that what appears on the surface. The main problem is that the media isn’t talking about vertical specific plays for open source.
Maybe the problem is that industry analyst firms would rather stick to magic quadrants and send their clients down the slope of disillusionment by only talking about marketshare instead of anything meaningful.
Imagine if the word got out that folks like Duke Energy have released their internal .NET framework to the open source community and that there are dozens of enterprises I converse with that are thinking about doing the same.
http://duckdown.blogspot.com
stephen o'grady says:
November 9, 2005 at 12:14 pm
James G: 😉
James M: i didn’t know that, but i’m glad someone corrected him of that misinformed (IMHO) impression. as for appetite, i couldn’t agree more. how many people said “linux will never work” or “open source will never work” because of false impressions of interest and/or marketshare?
so while some industry analysts would continue to lead enterprises astray with such numbers, thankfully we have astute customers such as yourself that are willing to call ‘bullshit.’
kudos.