That’s the gist of what academics and engineers told IT workers
gathered here this week for the three-day Association for Computing
Machinery conference. The event is typically a sort of group hug
between computer programmers and scientists, but the mood turned a
tad nasty Tuesday as researchers lightheartedly ripped on computer
scientists, who made up the bulk of the 200-member audience.”

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This meeting is free and open to the public.
 
 The meeting runs from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
 
 Thanks to support of CALC/Canterbury, the meeting is
 in their space at 780 Third Avenue 
 between 48th and 49th Streets on
 the East Side of Manhattan.  Ask at the front desk for
 CALC/Canterbury, which is on Concourse Level 1.
 
 Times:
 
 6:30 pm General Q&A
 7:00 pm Jay Sulzberger will commence ranting
 
 Subway stops:
 IND E and F, the Lexington Avenue stop
 IRT 6, the 51st Street stop
 
 If you plan to attend, please visit the Beginners
 web page at
 
 http://www.gnubies.org
 
 and follow the attendance link so that we can
 arrange for the appropriate amount of space.
 
 
 Today there is no competent mass market small office
 lan product, neither a source secret product nor a free software
 product. We will argue that the correlation of forces favors free
 software in the coming drive to lower Operating Costs and raise
 Return on Investment.
 
 http://www.fsf.org
 http://www.debian.org
 http://rsync.samba.org


 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
 http://sicp.ai.mit.edu/Spring-2001


ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_75.html#SEC82


ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_141.html#SEC264


http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/03/13/1420210.shtml


http://hotwired.lycos.com/collections/connectivity/5.10_eli_noam1.html


http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link9708/0412.html
 
 info tar
 man apt-get
 
 I will also install from scratch a Debian system in
 two different ways, one of which requires 
 exactly three keystrokes.  The author of the three stroke
 install utility will heckle throughout.
 
 Jay Sulzberger 

The software powerhouse will next Monday unveil software to allow
non-Microsoft platforms to implement .Net, its technology to deliver
software and applications over the Internet.”

Transmeta, which sells low-power, Intel-compatible processors
called Crusoe, previously referred to Midori as Mobile Linux.
Transmeta has been working on the Midori additions to Linux for
more than a year. Now it has released the software as an
open-source project at VA Linux Systems’ SourceForge site.” (Note: VALinux also owns Newsforge.com.)

eZ publish 2.0 contains a range of modules. This enables the software to function on everything from simple home pages, through intra-nets to complete web shops, portals or news services. The product is under constant development due to customer demand.

Because of its modularity, and the use of templates in the design, creating or customising a visual design for your eZ publish web site is a breeze. eZ publish is licensed under GPL, which means open source and free distribution and customisation.

The software has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since eZ systems launched eZ publish 1.0 in November 2000, and it has quickly become one of the most popular open source web projects. Our development page has had a steady increase in traffic. Our partner program has, since its inception at the launch of the 2.0 beta program, attracted interest from all the Western European countries, USA, Canada and other countries worldwide. We’ve already acquired partners in Canada, Italy, Norway and the British West Indies.

The response to eZ publish has been overwhelming with regards to customer sales and new projects. Because of this we’ve quickly become an international operation with customers around the world. We’ve also realized that we need new developers. We’re very pleased with the revenue stream generated by eZ publish and related services.

We’re experiencing daily contact from potential customers and partners from large parts of Europe and America. During this year we believe we will have partners in the largest Western European countries, several in the US and Canada. This will give easy access to professional web services based on eZ publish.

The users of eZ publish prefer eZ publish to other very expensive and commercial alternatives because the software provides easy installation and maintenance. The costs of deploying eZ publish are minimal to non-existent, since the software is licensed under GPL. The software competes favourably in features compared to commercial offerings. Consulting services from eZ systems and its partners are only directed at the specific needs of the customers, such as customisation and design. Together with our competitive prices this ensures low deployment and maintenance costs.

Our open source commitment have given us customer trust and satisfaction. They know they receive the best return on their investments from us and our partners. We have a very open and direct customer relationship which gives our customers direct contact with our developers and those who knows the system best.

eZ publish 2.0 is available from our development web site. Commercial support, hosting, hardware with pre-installed eZ publish and software on CD-ROM is available from our online shop.

You can read more about eZ systems at our home pages and more about eZ publish at its home page.

Press officer

Paul K Egell-Johnsen
E-mail
Telephone: +47 35 53 35 44
Fax: +47 35 53 35 46

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