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Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal)
The Linux Journal reports from the Red Hat Summit. "When I sit through the keynote speeches at these conferences, it amazes me how these top executives can come up with the most bizarre looking graphs and charts to explain the open-source development trend thus far, thereby attempting to predict accurately where it's heading. These executives seem to be trying to take data they've accumulated on the open-source industry and squeeze it into traditional business models so they can explain it in ways they as business managers can understand. From that, they hope to be able to control or at least to predict future trends."
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Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal) Posted Jun 8, 2005 16:52 UTC (Wed) by bferrell (subscriber, #624) [Link] Is it just me, or does this report read like something froma hollywood RedCarpet event? I mean, does anyone actually care that the breakfast and lunch was part of the admission price or who sponsored the event?
Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal) Posted Jun 10, 2005 5:48 UTC (Fri) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] The sponsorship is quite relevant, although I can't say as much about the food. In journalism, one of the primary lessons in tracking down influences (e.g., in political campaigns) is, "Follow the money."
Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal) Posted Jun 8, 2005 17:27 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] If the big software companies are to take over the revolution--as implied in Szulik's keynote comments--what will be the results? Will they be what Linus Torvalds set out to achieve 14 years ago?Linus explicitely set out to achieve something? Urf?
Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal) Posted Jun 8, 2005 17:32 UTC (Wed) by rriggs (subscriber, #11598) [Link] [It] amazes me how these top executives can come up with the most bizarre looking graphs and charts to explain the open-source development trend thus far, thereby attempting to predict accurately where it's heading.Ha! Those graphs are just a bizarre looking (and accurate) when it comes predicting traditional business models. Modern business management (based on my exposure) seems to be on the same level of quackery as astrology. An MBA and an MFA in Interpretive Dance are equally qualified for business management in my book.
Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal) Posted Jun 8, 2005 18:38 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Well, there are some few people who seem to do pretty well for themselves by accurately predicting market trends, etc. But they are generally the quiet ones. (Maybe because they don't think it would be good to have their profits spoiled by the whole herd stampeding the same way they're going?)
But I do recognize the type of people you were referring to; it seems to me that there is a form of 'cargo cult' management that goes on--imitating those that actually know what they're doing without knowing why the techniques and methods were developed. (See Richard Feynman for a description of 'cargo cult science', which is the model I am referencing.) Unfortunately there are a whole lot of cargo cult managers out there, and I suspect that a few graduate business schools might be guilty of propagating this as well, perhaps unwittingly... Bummer.
Red Hat Summit: Overview and Reflections (Linux Journal) Posted Jun 8, 2005 21:44 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Well, there are some few people who seem to do pretty well for themselves by accurately predicting market trends, etc. But they are generally the quiet ones. (Maybe because they don't think it would be good to have their profits spoiled by the whole herd stampeding the same way they're going?) Bingo. Future in the system with prophet is unpredictable - unless noone is listening to him, of course.
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