[ale] Heckling billy-g

[Terry Lee Tucker]

sjd wrote:
> 
> Under the guise of "know your enemies", on tuesday morning I went to Comdex
> at 7:30am to wait in line to see billy-g speak.
> 
> (for the record, I was about 600th in line)
> 
> At one point, when bill was talking about NT's SCALABILITY, he showed a
> video clip of John Gray (anyone know who this guy is?) describing this
> 45-node NT network that was capable of a BILLION transactions per day.  It
> was this ENORMOUSLY montrous thing put together in 19" racks -- about two
> rooms full of them.  All the network wiring was behind glass cabinet doors,
> and you could see the LED lights flickering away.
> 
> At this point, I yelled, "IT LOOKS LIKE A MAINFRAME"
> 
> I dunno if billy-g heard me, but it sure felt good to let him know my
> feelings.
> 
> Question for discussion:
> What do you call a week in which you see Bill Gates give a Keynote at
> Comdex, and Linus give a keynote at ALS?
> 
> steve

Good for you!!  Lay it on him!  I was at Comdex today.  There were 3,
count'em 3 Linux vendors there!  I'm looking forward to ALS...
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