I was running one of the Novell booths at the exhibition hall, and I was busy all week with people who seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say-- and I can tell the difference between spiff-hunters and real leads.

My preferred metaphor is the girl next door that you used to like, but ignored all through high school, and she shows up at the dance in a new dress and suddenly you have to look at her again. Novell's more than Netware-- did you know ZEN management runs on Windows and Linux too?-- and it's about time you noticed.

Or at least outsmart Code Red, or Nimda, or I Love You, or....