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| 2 | GreigMcGill | 1 | !!Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| 1 | CraigBox | 2 | |
| 5 | JohnMcPherson | 3 | Monday 22 November, Room LitB G02 at WaikatoUniversity - |
| 4 | Tung U from RedHat Asia Pacific and Tara Sutherland from [VodaFone] New Zealand. | ||
| 2 | GreigMcGill | 5 | |
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| 5 | JohnMcPherson | 7 | Tung U presented at the Red Hat World Tour and was extremely inspirational. Big business IS switching, and Red Hat is helping them do so. |
| 2 | GreigMcGill | 8 | |
| 5 | JohnMcPherson | 9 | He spoke to WLUG about a variety of things, including: |
| 10 | * employee numbers (including LinuxKernel hackers), job openings | ||
| 11 | * linux market share | ||
| 12 | * amount of interest from mainstream business | ||
| 13 | * RH server lifespan, 2 year support | ||
| 14 | * "Red Hat Network" | ||
| 15 | * Training and certification - Red Hat Certified {Technician,Engineer,Architect} | ||
| 2 | GreigMcGill | 16 | |
| 5 | JohnMcPherson | 17 | Tara Sutherland from Vodafone New Zealand then told us how Vodafone switched their entire web services backend to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. |
| 18 | Key points: | ||
| 19 | * Migrated from HP-UX operating system on PA-RISC/L2000 machines | ||
| 20 | * Standardised on Red Hat Linux running on 2.4GHz dual Xeon machines from IBM | ||
| 21 | * Estimated $50k/yr savings on software licensing | ||
| 22 | * Estimated $65k/yr savings from efficiency gains | ||
| 23 | * Estimated $60k/yr savings on hardware upgrades/maintenance | ||
| 24 | * CFengine for easy setting up and managing server farms | ||
| 25 | * Enjoy being part of 'community' - sending bugfixes/enhancements upstream, participating in newgroups, Red Hat Network feedback... | ||
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| 28 | WLUG sincerely thanks both these speakers for their very interesting | ||
| 29 | presentation and insights on 'Linux in the enterprise'. | ||
| 2 | GreigMcGill | 30 | |
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| 3 | JohnMcPherson | 32 | See also OldMeetingTopics |
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