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[der.hans]

moin moin,

East Side Presentations This Month

     * Virtualization In The Open Enterprise
     * Recollections of founding a distribution and doing business with big
business

Doors open a half hour before the meeting.

Date: Thursday, 2009Nov11
Time: 19:00
Location: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
Address: 1460 S. Horne, Mesa AZ

Topic: Virtualization In The Open Enterprise

Presenter: Joseph Sinclair

Abstract: Virtualization is one of the more widely talked about
technologies today, but most discussions are deeply technical, leaving the
business leader with little understanding of how to use virtualization to
drive business results. This presenter provides a discussion of the basics
of the technology as a framework for discussing how, when, and why
virtualization technology may be used to drive real business benefits in
cost reduction, flexibility, system utilization, and business growth. Free
and open virtualization products are discussed in some detail, along with
their advantages and disadvantages from a business management viewpoint.
Major forms of virtualization, along with their uses and limitations are
also covered. A short discussion of the near-horizon in virtualization
technology and a business uses wrap-up conclude the discussion.

Bio: Joseph Sinclair is a Software Engineer currently residing near
Phoenix, Arizona. Joseph has been writing software for networked and
web-based systems for almost 20 years. A local leader in the Free/Open
Source Software community, Joseph is a strong advocate for open
innovation, greater access to technology, and greater attention to
accessibility in developing web-based content and applications. Joseph's
recent work has focused on enterprise distributed computing, virtual
machine technology, and efficient network-based mixed sequential/parallel
processing technologies.

Topic: Recollections of founding a distribution and doing busin
ess with big business

Presenter: Jason Spisak

Abstract and Bio: Jason Spisak, Co-founder of Lycoris/Redmond Linux
(1999-2002) and a long time Linux lover and Voice-Over actor. More
recently he worked for Apple in their Small Business division, stared in
Squirrel Boy on Cartoon Network and started his own on-site Mac support
company, MacTropers. He's going to share some stories from the days of
making the deal for the Wal-Mart $199 PC along side Lindows, and a trip to
HP to put LInux on their desktops way back in 2001, plus a little meeting
with VC folks for good measure.

https://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/149

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ciao,

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