CeBIT 2015 retrospective

On Monday I visited this years CeBIT. The first time after three or so years.

As usual most of the big vendors were represented. Over at the IBM booth I looked if could find oVirt on Power8, but the only thing they were demonstrating were RHEL 7 (and some other distors) on Power8.

The open source party was quite small. Just a few booths, far fewer than a few years ago. But there were and are some quite interesting talks at the Open Source Forum - including a couple of talks from Jon ‘maddog’ Hall, Klaus Knopper and a few others - look at the schedule here.

At the end of the day - and 45minutes delayed - I had a short session (slides) about oVirt. The audience was small, but they seemed to be interested in oVirt and a couple of them seemed to get back to it.

A real highlight? No, sorry, I did not see any. For oVirt it was good to show up at an exhibition like this. You are visible to an audience which is normally not present at the f/loss conferences we usually have.

And about the future of Open Source at CeBIT? I am not sure. To me it looks like the global vision on what Open Source want’s to represent at CeBIT is somewhat missing.

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