NCSA Meeting March 8: Note 7:00pm Meeting Time

[Program Coordinator]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is this Monday, March 8 at 7:00pm. Details about
the meeting are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                    NC*SA General Meeting
               7:00 pm Monday, March 8, 2004
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC

	   Topic: Fedora and the Future of Red Hat
	   Speaker: Jeremy Hogan - Red Hat Linux

	   Sponsors: Duke University CS Lab
	   Found At: http://www.cs.duke.edu/
	
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Abstract:  

All modern IT departments are faced at some point with the question of
to do, or not do, Linux. This Free (both in terms of $$ and of freedom)
operating system has technical capabilities and an applications base
which are highly seductive to applications vendors and IT departments
alike. 

Often, Linux can be sampled at little or no cost to an IT department
with a spare PC, and the cost of a download. Red Hat is now changing
this model with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and "The Fedora Project". The
line between an enterprise linux and free software has been reinvented.
Come hear Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat explain the features of the new Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and the revenue model being pursued by Red Hat,
Inc. For a sampling of these and other questions, visit
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/faq/ . 

Bio:

Jeremy Hogan has been with Red Hat for over three years, starting in
install support, moving to high level support and services for companies
like Amazon, AOL, Pixar and HP, before moving to marketing. When not on
tour spreading the good word, Jeremy spends most of his time in
newsgroups, mailing lists and on IRC in his flameproof suit while trying
to make sure more people like Red Hat than hate it.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The meeting time has been changed to 7pm. Please plan
your arrival later than 6:30pm, as there may be a group using Dreyfus
auditorium before NC*SA. If this is not the case, the doors will be
locked by RTI security. Dreyfus Auditorium will be available for our
meeting no sooner than 7pm.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing food
and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please contact the
Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org

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A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.

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