I'd like to point out that the critical need for interoperability standards and the initiation of the Portland project was also highlighted recently in a forward written by Bernard Golden, for the latest version of the Linux Client Migration Cookbook.  The Cookbook is a freely downloadable "Redbook" published by IBM (for which I am project leader, and Greg Kelleher is the primary sponsor).  You can download the latest draft of the book here:  <a href=http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246380.html?Open>http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246380.html?Open</a> Thanks - Chris Almond <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>portland-request@lists.freedesktop.org Sent by: portland-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org 10/09/2006 02:00 PM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to portland@lists.freedesktop.org</div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>portland@lists.freedesktop.org <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Portland Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Send Portland mailing list submissions to                 portland@lists.freedesktop.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit                 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to                 portland-request@lists.freedesktop.org You can reach the person managing the list at                 portland-owner@lists.freedesktop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Portland digest..." Today's Topics:   1. LinuxUser & Developer (John Cherry) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:00:21 -0700 From: John Cherry <cherry@osdl.org> Subject: [Portland] LinuxUser & Developer To: dtl_marketing@groups.osdl.org Cc: portland@lists.freedesktop.org Message-ID: <1160409621.18052.22.camel@cherrypit.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain Just received permission to send out the pdf of the Portland Project article that was released in LInuxUser & Developer. http://www.osdl.org/Documents/LuD68_Cherry_Portland.pdf The timing of this article actually turned out pretty nicely.  We will be making a press release of Portland 1.0 on Wednesday, with a couple of press prep interviews tomorrow. Congratulations to Waldo and the Portland team.  The article is a little "dramatic," but that is how these articles tend to be.  Other than the theatrical opening, it actually does a nice job of explaining the multi-phase approach, the installation and runtime tools, a call for testing, and a call for application vendors to use the tools. This project really IS a representation of the power of the open source community to define a need, and to collaborate to address it in a way that moves both the market and technology forward. Cheers, John Cherry OSDL Destkop Linux ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list Portland@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland End of Portland Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1 *************************************** </tt>