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!!Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Monday 22 November, Room LitB G02 at WaikatoUniversity -
Tung U from RedHat Asia Pacific and Tara Sutherland from [VodaFone] New Zealand.


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.

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}

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'.

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