The mixture of sessions was interesting. There were some really good ones. I think the best session I attended was an OpenSolaris/NetBeans/Glassfish/Virtualbox/ZFS session, given by a Sun employee. He was an excellent presenter, and really showed off the strengths of the technologies in a nice way. He started up enough VMs to make his OpenSolaris laptop chew into swap, and I thought it was fun to see how it dealt with that. I've heard Solaris and OpenSolaris do a lot better at avoiding and managing swapping than GNU/Linux, but I couldn't make any opinion from watching.

When Sun Microsystems announced financial results this week, The VAR Guy had a moment of clarity: Sun is looking more and more like the new Novell. And The VAR Guy means that in a complimentary way. Here’s why.

Basically, Sun is a much larger version of Novell. Consider the parallels between the companies: