Barnaby's Canadian IT Pro WebLog

Well, the first week of the tour is complete, and I'm just sitting at the airport waiting to fly out to Calgary. Bill Hilf and I have already completed 3 cities, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. I'm heading out west to visit Calgary and Vancouver on this Read More...

According to industry analyst firm Gartner, the technology industry has entered a period of high commercialization of Linux. Many acknowledge that Linux may have a place in their organizations, but many questions remain – questions about the business Read More...

Thanks to the Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group ( KWLUG ) for allowing me to come out and present on Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) at your monthly meeting. For those people that want to learn more about SFU there are a couple of websites Read More...

Thanks to all that came out to see my presentation (Windows in an Open Source World) at the TechVibes Massive 2005 event.  It was great to have a full room and lots of great questions and discussion.

For more information on what Microsoft is doing in the Shared Source space check out http://www.microsoft.com/sharedsource.  If you are interested in reading more of the reports that were referenced in the presentation, head over to http://www.getthefacts.com/.

As always, if you have any questions that you didn't get a chance to ask at the session, please feel free to post them here.

I will be heading to Vancouver this week to give a presentation at the TechVibes Massive event on Wednesday March 30th. If you happen to be in Vancouver and attending Massive, drop by and say hi. For more information on the the event check out: http://www.techvibes.com/massive/ Read More...