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Some LinuxWorld predictions
August 03, 2007

It's that time of the year again. Here's next week's news, so you won't miss anything:

- Ron Hovsepian will talk up the benefits of Novell's Microsoft deal.

- Dell will not announce new Linux PCs but loads of people will blog about them anyway.

- IBM will announce something related to its Big Green project.

- HP will announce something that seems quite interesting at first glance, but actually isn't. Like a security certification.

- Loads of people will talk about virtualization.

- And patents.

- A few start-ups will announce funding deals.

- Something about Ubuntu.

- A lot about Ubuntu.

- A social networking site will announce an open source project.

- A major open source vendor will announce it is moving to the GPLv3.

- Another new open source industry consortium will be formed.

- A major proprietary software vendor will announce an open source push.

- Oracle will announce that Unbreakable Linux has been really succesful, actually.

- Red Hat will say it hasn't.

- Someone will say "the year of the Linux desktop". They may well be referring to 2005.

- Open source will be declared "mainstream", "over", "here to stay" and "dead".

Probably.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on August 3, 2007 05:20 PM

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