Tao Student – A Personal Site for Gary Ardito

Hello All…
I find myself back in Salt Lake City at Novell’s annual user conference Brainshare.   I have been here since Saturday in various business meetings but the actual event kicked off today.  I  thought it was a great start.  Ron’s opening remarks clarifying our strategic direction using a set of conversations with a friend metaphor [...]

I am heading off to California tomorrow to attend the latest IIW. I am very excited as I have been following the Internet Identity efforts from a far for quite a while.. acting as a voyeur on the mailing lists and getting updates from Dale Olds (colleague at Novell) as often as [...]

Anybody who has been remotely involved in the open source community over the past year knows about the uproar related to the Novell – Microsoft deal put together last November. Novell has been called out and called many things because of this deal. I have maintained from the beginning that this deal was [...]

Three more sessions plus a keynote today…
The next session was on Open Source and the Channel. This was a session I was really looking forward to. Lets say it really hit home. The panel in this case included Anthony Gold from Unisys and Anthony Roby from Accenture. The crux of this was that [...]

As promised, here at OSBC..
First impression, this conference has grown dramatically in audience and tenor since the first one a few years ago when the main questions were “What really is open source?” and “What is the GPL?” Overall, today’s audience is composed of people with far more experience with Open Source (both [...]

I am heading to San Fran today to attend OSBC 2007. I am looking forward to it. I am always looking to refine the CxO message around Linux and Open Source and this show often provides the conversation to do just that.
I will blog during the conference

As I sit here in the Detroit airport waiting for my flight to Paris, I want to  acknowledge the excitement and, of course, the controversy generated by my employers, Novell, recent announcement with Microsoft.    I am personally excited by the aggressive behavior of our executives and hope all Novell employees around the world can match [...]