PLUGdev presentation by Jeff Savit(Sun) on OpenSolaris - Thr Dec. 3rd 7:30 rm 203

[Ed]

Our final meeting and presentation for 2009 is December 3rd and we are
very happy to have Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems* presenting on
OpenSolaris.

Title: OpenSolaris

Jeff Savit will describe Sun Microsystems' open sourced OpenSolaris
operating, show its relationship to the Solaris 10, and describe some
of its more interesting and unique features, such as DTrace, Solaris
Containers, Crossbow network virtualization, CIFS and COMSTAR iSCSI
services, OpenHA cluster. Other features for datacenters and for
developers will be discussed.

    * OpenSolaris and Solaris
    * New features in OpenSolaris
    * SPARC and Intel support
    * Crossbow network virtualization
    * Advanced and customized install
    * CIFS and COMSTAR iSCSI target support
    * OpenHA cluster
    * support model and pricing
    * New features for the desktop
    * New features for the developer
    * The Road Forward with Solaris and OpenSolaris

*This should be a very interesting presentation, especially when you
consider that OpenSolaris & Solaris will likely be "the" cross
platform Oracle solution (IMHO) in the not so distant future (with or
without the EC).

Jeff Savit is a Sun Microsystems Principal Field Technologist working
in areas including
Solaris, Virtualization, performance, Java, migration, and application
and system architecture.
Jeff is expert in virtualization and systems performance on multiple
platforms, and has
internals-level experience ranging from mainframe OSes like MVS and
VM, to Linux, and
of course Solaris and other Unix variants.

Before joining Sun, he was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where he
had technical and
managerial roles in development, systems management, market data,
architecture, and web
applications. He introduced the first use of TCP/IP protocol to
Merrill Lynch, wrote
market data portions of Merrill Lynch's Internet trading applications,
and created
one of the Internet's first stock quote web sites.

Mr. Savit is the author of the Sun Blueprint "Energy Efficiency
Strategies: Sun Server
Virtualization Technology", and the Virtualization chapter of the
"Datacenter Reference
Guide" Blueprint". He also wrote or coauthored several books: "Enterprise Java",
"VM & CMS: Performance and Fine Tuning", "VM/CMS Concepts and Facilities", and
"IBM Mainframes", and contributed to others: "VM Applications
Handbook", "The REXX Handbook",
and "The VM/ESA Handbook". He has also been published in SIGPLAN
Notices, a journal of the
Association of Computing Machinery. Mr. Savit has been a featured
speaker at conferences
including those listed above, InternetWorld, SHARE, GUIDE,
Australasian SHARE/GUIDE, and
the Modula-2 Users Group. He also served on a computer science
delegation to the People's
Republic of China.

So, If you are interested in some serious free computing - or just
have a boss that checks this crazy big list twice..
Come to the PLUGDev presentation by Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems
in room 203 at UAT on Thursday, December 3rd 7:30PM.

Please delay your bringing of festive foods and cheesecakes and all
edibles for another week, as much as they would be appreciated, UAT
likes to keep it's classrooms clean and well, there are rules...

I look forward to seeing you all this Thursday - Ed