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As if I'm not busy enough preparing for next week's Worldwide Education and Research Conference, I have to present Sunday at the Southern California Linux Expo, SCALE for short. Thanks to Sun's new Podcast site I have a nice fast server to store my presentation. Sorry, no audio version yet. I expect in another year I'll be able to dictate into my cellphone and press a button and instantly sync to a podcast server. Maybe even video by then. In fact, why have separate blog sites and podcast sites at all?

I really do love the SCALE crowd. Sunday morning at 10 am when I start my talk SCALE will look like the church of open source. Never seen so many people running Debian on old SPARC workstations. They could of course buy several of our new Opteron based Sun Java Workstations for the price of that old SPARC workstation, but that is simply Moore's law in action. Funny how perception trails reality. I spent years explaining to people, "No, Sun doesn't just make workstations anymore, we make real servers too". Remember the days when a Sun server was a workstation without the monitor? Now days people are more likely to ask, "you still make workstations?". You bet we do. And if you like the Sun Java Workstations, stay tuned, quite a bit more coming your way this year on the workstation front.

Now off to practice my SCALE presentation. Hope it stops raining by Sunday.