Looking ahead to a Boston showdown

As San Francisco bids farewell to the Linux devotees who gathered in the city for last week’s LinuxWorld event, Boston is preparing for the Fall Voice on the Network show being held Sept. 22-25 (see upcoming show links below). More specifically, Boston is preparing for Network World’s Voice over IP Showdown, where leading VoIP vendors will wrestle with the important questions of the day.

Last month, we invited Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, GoBean and M5 Networks to send their top technical reps to VON to tell us why we should listen to their VoIP story and how they will address your concerns. We’ll report back on who took part and what they had to say, but why not go there yourself to see the Showdown at first hand?

Back to this week’s industry gatherings. HP CEO Carly Fiorina opened the HP World conference which is taking place in Atlanta. In her keynote she told attendees why, unsurprisingly, IT does matter as she referred to a widely discussed May article by Nicholas Carr in the Harvard Business Review. More interestingly though, she made digs at Dell, which recently dropped “Computer” from its name. She referred to Dell as a “low tech” company, which  will sell whatever it can, including televisions, through a distribution model that’s effective.

* News from HP World, Atlanta

Fiorina: IT does matter, 08/12/03

The role of technology in the enterprise may be changing, but IT still very much matters, HP CEO Carly Fiorina said Tuesday in a keynote speech at her company’s HP World user convention in Atlanta.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0812fioriitdo.html

* Late breaking news from LinuxWorld Expo, San Francisco

LinuxWorld bustles despite SCO flap, 08/11/03

Any suspicions that The SCO Group’s legal battle over Linux would put a damper on corporate adoption of the open source operating system were pretty well laid to rest last week at a bustling LinuxWorld show featuring major systems vendors touting their latest Linux wares.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0811linuxworld.html

IBM, SuSE secure Linux with Fed certification, 08/11/03

Linux took another step in its evolution last week when IBM and SuSE Linux announced that the open source operating system had achieved an international security certification used by the federal government.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0811suse.html

NetWare at a crossroads, 08/11/03

Every time Novell walks a few steps deeper into the Linux arena, someone suggests the company is running away from its NetWare base.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0811novell.html

Quite a week at LinuxWorld Expo, 08/11/03

Some weeks in Linux news can make your head spin, especially the week of LinuxWorld Expo. Last week’s extravaganza in San Francisco brought a whirlwind of industry news, from mergers to lawsuits, as well as new products based on the open source operating system.

https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/linux/2003/0811linux1.html

* LOOKING FORWARD TO VON

Calling VoIP hosters, CPE players to VON, 07/21/03

It’s time to consider the Fall Voice on the Network show, which is being held Sept. 22-25 in Boston. And if we’re talking VON, we’re talking a Network World Voice over IP Showdown …

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0721edit.html

* UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS:

OracleWorld

Sept. 7-11, San Francisco

https://www.oracle.com/oracleworld/

PUG 2003 (Polycom User Group)

Sept. 13-17, San Francisco

https://www.pug.com/conference/index.html

TECHXNY (Technology Exchange Week New York, formerly PC Expo)

Sept. 15-18, New York

https://www.techxny.com/intro.cfm

Intel Developer Forum

Sept. 16-18, San Jose, California

https://www.intel.com/idf/us/fall2003/index.htm

Sun Network Conference

Sept. 16-18, San Francisco

https://sunnetwork.sun.com/

DEMOmobile 2003

Sept 17-19, La Jolla, California

https://www.idgexecforums.com/demomobile/

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2003

Oct. 19-24, Orlando, Florida

https://www4.gartner.com/pages/section.php.id.2166.s.8.jsp

Fall 2003 VON (Voice on the Net) Conference & Expo

Sept. 22-25, Boston

https://www.von.com/

* NETWORK WORLD TECHNOLOGY TOURS (free registration):

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discuss the latest trends in Wireless LANs, WANs, and the New

Data Center. You’ll get to meet leading vendors in those

technology areas and pose questions to our panel of experts.

We hope to see you there!

WLANS: Sept. 3-25. Click here for the event at a city near you:

https://www.nwfusion.com/events/wlan/index.html

WANS: Sept. 9-18. Click here for the event at a city near you:

https://www.nwfusion.com/events/wan/

The New Data Center: Sept. 10-30. Click here for the event at a

city near you:

https://www.nwfusion.com/events/datacenter/index.html