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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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