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!!Red Hat Enterprise Linux
-Monday 22 November - Tung U from Red Hat
Asia Pacific will present a summary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
-He presented at the Red Hat World Tour
and was extremely inspirational. Big business IS switching, and Red Hat is helping them do so
.
+Monday 22 November, Room LitB G02 at WaikatoUniversity
-
+
Tung U from RedHat
Asia Pacific and Tara Sutherland from [VodaFone] New Zealand
.
-This promises to be an exciting talk whether you are involved with large enterprise operations or not.
-Tara Sutherland from Vodafone New Zealand may also explain how Vodafone switched their entire web services backend to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, though she
is unconfirmed at this stage
.
+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
.
-7
:30pm
, 22 November%%%
-University
of Waikato%%%
-Room: LitB.G.02
+He spoke to WLUG about a variety of things, including
:
+* employee numbers (including LinuxKernel hackers)
, job openings
+* linux market share
+* amount
of interest from mainstream business
+* RH server lifespan, 2 year support
+* "Red Hat Network"
+* Training and certification - Red Hat Certified {Technician,Engineer,Architect}
-Park
in Gate 1
, Knighton Rd
+Tara Sutherland from Vodafone New Zealand then told us how Vodafone switched their entire web services backend to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
+Key points:
+* Migrated from HP-UX operating system on PA-RISC/L2000 machines
+* Standardised on Red Hat Linux running on 2.4GHz dual Xeon machines from IBM
+* Estimated $50k/yr savings on software licensing
+* Estimated $65k/yr savings from efficiency gains
+* Estimated $60k/yr savings on hardware upgrades/maintenance
+* CFengine for easy setting up and managing server farms
+* Enjoy being part of 'community' - sending bugfixes/enhancements upstream, participating
in newgroups
, Red Hat Network feedback...
+
+
+WLUG sincerely thanks both these speakers for their very interesting
+presentation and insights on 'Linux in the enterprise'.
-* http://www.waikato.ac.nz/perl-bin/map/tt-map.pl?term=litb
-* http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map.pdf
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