Another Techshare Over

Our 2006 Techshare, the 3-day network administrator training session we do every year, has successfully concluded. Of particular interest were the vendor presentations of Lenovo and HP on business workstation manageability. It is uncanny how similar their offerings are, but I think the Lenovo manageablity stuff might fit better with our Novell Zenworks solution. I also far prefer Lenovo Thinkpad keyboards. I was never unhappy while I had an HP laptop, but once I got my first Thinkpad I found out what I was missing. Keyboards are all-important to touch-typists, and I prefer a standard layout that is the same on all laptops, and as similar as possible to a full-size keyboard. HP doesn’t come close to Lenovo in that respect.

Anyways, everybody learned something and some people learned a lot. We also took the opportunity to do some training on our Polycom video conferencing stuff, and we sent Nancy from Lethbridge back to the Lethbridge office with a full Polycom sytem all preconfigured and ready to go.