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I was near the Salt Palace Convention Center in downtown Salt Lake City yesterday and noticed the big red banners around the center trumpeting Novell's Braindead conference, again underway here. Unlike last year when I was in the same area, I didn't see CNEs and CNAs walking around with blank stares on their faces. That's not because they weren't doing that. It was because I was there in the middle of the day and the conference was in full swing. It's interesing to read the comments from Novell CEO Jack Messman, who tried to paint a rosy picture by talking about how the number of servers running Linux has grown over the past year. He failed to point out two things. First, Where is Novell in all this? Has their percentage of the Linux market grown, shrunk, or remained the same? Second, the number of server running Windows has also grown in the past year. He failed to show how Linux is making any headway against Windows. If I were attending Braindead (which I'm not, never have, and never will), I would be skeptical of the numbers.