Our guest for April was Buddika Aluwihare from HP who spoke on HP's Reference Linux Architecture.

• Buddika's slides

Buddika Aluwihare: Linux Ambassador for HP NZ.

Open Source Adoption in the Marketplace

• Accelerating across the enterprise

• Commercial certification now available

  • most major vendors certify on RedHat/SUSE
  • many telcos run Debian

Customer issues in deploying OSS

Customer pain points

From Forrester survey, 2005:

Customers want help...

Ongoing accountability for support Making the pieces working together Defining OSS strategy Defining criteria for software selection Obtaining technical skills

HP's approach

• as a member of the community
• using GPLv2 - active participation in GPLv3
• working with distros & ISVs to deliver innovative and effective solutiosn
• moving towards standards based architecture - totally X86 from Intel & AMD
• OSS stack over entire hardware range

OpenSource/Linux strategy

Choice:

• comprehensive ecosystem
• OS/commercial/hybrid
• Commitment to advance

Integration

• Preintegrated/customization
• Consulting
• Virtualization

Confidence

• Single point of accountability
• HighAvailability clustering
• Indemnification
• Security/Common Criteria cerfication
• Market leadership

HP's Open Source Integrated Platform

Platform overview

• moved from a Linux platform to an "Open Source" platform
• OS: Linux, HP/UX, Windows, NonStop OS
• SW: HA management, commercial/OSS middleware
• Services: Global consulting and support
• Platforms: Integrity, Proliant, BladeSystem and StorageWorks

HP OS Building Blocks

• Single source for sales/support (including OS subscription/support)

Blueprints

Web App Server, J2EE App Server, Directory Services, Database server etc

• Using building blocks to construct a tested/supported OSS stack

• Free DIY guides for customers:

  • specific workloads
  • deployment/config guidelines

Consulting

• LAMP and commercial/OSS/hybrid stacks
• Customized offerings
• Globally delivered, deployed and supported

Examples of software HP can support

JBoss

• Enterprise middleware suite
• HP has a JBoss dev centre in Christchurch!
• Unprecedented growth: 13%, 26%, 34% in 3 years
• Large community, 250,000 developers

MySQL

• Service subscriptions/support

HP Skills and Resources

Internally to HP, Linux provides...

• Provisioning and lifecycle for 15,000+ Linux devices
• LaserJet design lab: 1000 developers
• 3TB/yr of incoming email
• Core DNS infrastructure (BIND)
• Enterprise directory (I2 Systems)
• Corporate wireless network (Airwave)
• Network time synchronization
• Secure worldwide IM (Jabber)