Field Trip To Novell Singapore

Today's IS lesson is... *drum rolls*... oh the title already reveal le... Ok so I went to Novell Singapore today.... duh... It's the biggest company in Singapore involved in the development of Linux. (Biggest cos its the only one I know of... Is Red Hat and Fedora counted as well?) It developes its own distribution of Linux called open SUSE. From the open word u can guess its opensource lar... YAY to OpenSource. Anyway we went to Suntec City to visit their office. Its in the middle finger by the way... if you know how Suntec City looks like a hand... Its on the 32nd floor so stairs is out of the question -.- And the lift is freaking fast! 32 floors in ~ 10 seconds!!! Everyone's ears were popping lol... too fast le... We arrived sorta early... The lady who hosted us very cheerful... small thingy also laugh... laughter is the best medicine so they say... We stoned around for 10mins then some guy from Germany present to us. He is a Singapore student who took a joint scholarship from National Infocomm something and Novell to go to Germany and do research. The equipment dam high tech lor... Got some speaker phone that dials to Germany and a web portal developed by Novell that allows you to do a presentation from the Web. The guy was quite brief lar... but he said he get to go like 5 European cities in a few months' span... woah xian4 mu4... Think he went Germany, Austria, Italy and all those you-want-to-go-but-too-bad-cannot-go-places lol... Then all the rest not really interested lar... some demos about the cool stuff you can do on Linux, such as your desktop on 4 sides of a cube, instant zoom, wobbly windows and fire on your desktop... All special effects lar... nothing special... Then their hospitality dam good also... the prepare 2 huger trays of snacks for us and alot of packet drinks also. They also give us souviniers like a collar pin with SUSE on it and a water bottle i think.... I havent opened the box yet... I'll go open now...

YAY to OpenSource
YAY to OpenOffice
YAY to Linux
YAY to SUSE Linux