Thank You Slashdot

Thank you, Slashdot community, for allowing us (Intel) to join you in your forums and the Intel Opinion Center to discuss a wide range of topics over the last several months. We have enjoyed the opportunity to interact with you on a one to one basis and really dig deep into some of your questions and comments. We have appreciated your candor and your ability to ask us the hard questions about our products and our technology.

We would like to continue further conversations with you and have several areas where that is possible. Our Software group is very active within the Slashdot forums - please look for us there. In addition, we have several resources on intel.com where you can engage with us to ask technical questions and get straight answers. You can find us here:

• The Intel Software Network -- (http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/home/)
• Intel Software and Solutions resource -- (http://www.intel.com/go/software)
• Intel Software Developer Community -- (http://www.intel.com/software)
• Open Source @ Intel -- (http://www.intel.com/opensource)
• Intel's IT community Resources site -- (http://www.intel.com/business/community/)
• The IT@Intel Blog -- (http://blogs.intel.com/it/)
• The Technology@Intel Blog -- (http://blogs.intel.com/technology/)

If you are interested in projects that Intel open source team participates in, please visit:

• Linux Performance -- (http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net)
• Xen -- (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xen)
• KVM -- (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm)
• UML -- (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net)
• ACPI -- (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/)

Again - thank you for allowing us to visit your community and discuss topics such as Virtualization, Data Center Efficiency, Parallel Programming, and finally our Centrino Pro/vPro product launches this past week. We hope you found this valuable and look forward to more discussion opportunities in the future.

Best Regards,

Team Intel

Thank you Intel

It may be the height of arrogance for a semi-anonymous geek to praise a multinational corporation, but this is slashdot and I happen to think it goes with the common theme here.

As far as I can tell for most slashdotters this blog is a personal, not a professional, opportunity to beat their favorite drum and sometimes to learn about what's hot and what's not. It's not possible for any entity to hold unanimous favor here. For Intel to venture into slashdot is an opportunity for many to belittle, deride and criticize -- recreations I am guilty of myself. It's a bold move and completely unexpected. Anonymous criticism has the advantage of being unrestrained, and offers the potential to shed light on important issues that might otherwise be neglected. For us posters though it does give us the opportunity to betray the depth of our ignorance -- another place where I've been more guilty than some. I think it's possible for Intel to take a lot more benefit from this experience than might be immediately apparent.

Intel has through this forum held out the opportunity to communicate with real engineers and decision makers, knowledgable people with real skills who know what they're talking about. There is to most of us a wall separating the common nerd from the halls where the real invention is done. Thank you for letting us peek through, a little bit, for a little while.

For myself, it's been educational. vPro AMT was not looking promising -- I had expected to disable it on arrival until it went away. Now I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of some equipment to test and examine this technology. If it had not been for this discussion this would not be so, so thank you for that and for the other educational bits.

To the brave souls who've represented Intel here: You have done well in a challenging venture. Congratulations.