It sucks … I’m on a conference call during the keynote, so I’ll have
to watch the recorded version later.  The presenter from IBM, Jim
Stallings, is talking about their thoughts and efforts in the GNU/Linux
market.  He showed a lot of slides with growth rates, and analysis
of market trends … all showing the growth of GNU/Linux and the
“inflection point” that he indicates occurred in the last year or so.

IBM is outlining their strategy on how they will capitalize on the
growth of GNU/Linux … and their extensive world-wide resources. 
It is amazing how they are setting themselves up to truly benefit and
dominate in “selling” and “supporting” a product that cost them almost
nothing to have.  Impressive.  IBM is a very mature company
…

Jim then expanded on what he said was the sales opportunities for IBM and Novell:

• 2 Million+ NT Servers
• 2 Million+ “down rev” NetWare servers
• 6 Million+ Windows 2000 servers
• 1 Million+ OS/2 servers
• (I missed the last bullet …)

He wrapped up and Chris is now introducing the next part of the keynote
… Dave Litwack.  They are going to do some demos .  I
missed all of this while still listening to my conference call
…  ;-(

I also missed the next set of demos … I’ll catch up via the on-line replay.

Next was Martin Fink (VP Linux, HP)  and he presented the breadth
and depth of the relationship between Novell and HP.  He also
outlined their commitment to GNU/Linux, and their extensive use
internally – 4500 GNU/Linux servers!  He also talked about the
fact that HP and Novell have been working together for ~20 years, and
that they had a strong partnership with SuSE (including capital
investment) since 1999.  As my call ended (my cell ran out of
battery!) I only caught the end of his comments.