They started with a demo of YaST … pretty cool … it’s the
integrated management “console” they want to promote across all
GNU/Linux distributions.  (the wireless just went down again)

Next, Nat came up and did a demo of the new Open Source 
iFolder.  They indicated that it is entirely written in C# using
Mono.  He also indicated that it’s all out there today and both
Windows and GNU/Linux code was available.  They also used GAIM,
and indicated that both the front-end (of course) and the back end were
out there in Open Source.  Cool stuff.  They also showed the
printing support.  GNU/Linux Desktop stuff … not anything really
thrilling to the current GNU/Linux user …

JD Nyland (a great guy!) is now showing a demo of mounting NetWare NSS
volumes in Linux … this is obviously part of their migration tools
support.  I’m curious if they are going to demonstrate how the
user rights are going to be handled … this is the most complex issue
related to this type of capability.  Nope … they didn’t address
that issue.

He then went on to show Red Carpet delivery of .RPM packages to a
NetWare server.  It was a good demonstration of how they are
moving to standards like RPM and providing a consistant
interface/implementation (Red Carpet) across the two kernels.  He
installed and removed a VNC RPM on a NetWare server.  Lastly, he
showed off their Virtual Office solution … a web-based integration of
numerous Novell products.

Chris closed up the demos … and that was the Monday keynote.  Interesting stuff …