Re: [LUG] MS meetings "open and honest"

[Peter Walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:

> Alas, I am not free for any of these meetings.
>
>
> "Free seminars:  Hear the Facts on Linux & Open Source Software
> 10 June - London, 17 June - Edinburgh, 29 June - Manchester, 7 July - Newport
> Microsoft invites you to an open and honest technology seminar about the pros 
> and cons of Microsoft's technology platform in relation to Linux and Open 
> Source. 
> Click here http://newsletters.silicon.cneteu.net/t/18510/741702/6398/0/ or 
> call us on 0870 166 6622 to register"
>
> Oddly, I don't recognise any of the names given as being experts in Linux and 
> Open Source, but that is perhaps becuase of my limited acquantance with those 
> that would be generally regarded as expert.
>
> Alan Bleasdale leaps to mind though, and I don't see him there.
>
>
>  
It certainly sounds like a marketing exercise. The panel appears to be 2 
Microsoft and one independent with no Linux advocate. There are some who 
think Meta Group is too closely tied to Microsoft but Phil Dawson's 
credentials don't look too bad.

A quick selection of Googles.

His bio:
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2004/speakers.htm#Dawson

Some comments on companies speaking:
http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/archive/May2004/msg00356.html

An article by Phil Lawson:
http://www.computerweekly.com/Article129972.htm

and, finally, a quote from few years ago:

'Dawson believes the core development platforms in five years will be 
Microsoft Corp. Windows at the low end and Linux at the high end. And 
manufacturers of Unix hardware "will have to accommodate themselves to 
that."' [fwc.com:Dec 2002]

Pete


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