Don't Forget! NC*SA meeting, April 12, 2004 - Novell and Linux

[Frye, Matthew]

Just a reminder that the next meeting of the North Carolina System
Administrators 
will be Monday, April 12, 2004, at 7pm.  Details about the meeting and
directions are
provided in this note.  We hope to see you there! 

          		Topic: Novell and Linux
		Speaker: Dean Edwards of Novell
		7:00 p.m., Monday, 12 April 2004

			Dreyfus Auditorium
		Research Triangle Institute
		Research Triangle Park, NC


               
            --------------------------------------
Abstract: 
Novell announced in March that those who use NetWare will see a new offering
that combines NetWare with SUSE Linux, and that HP and Novell would work
together to sell notebook and desktop PCs loaded with Linux.  At the April
12, 2004 meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators, Dean Edwards
of Novell will join us to discuss Novell's Linux history, what Linux
solutions Novell has today, and to review Novell's Linux roadmap.  

About the speaker:
Dean Edwards began his career in IT while a student at Northwestern
University in 1987.  He was a work-study student supporting the computer
labs, which included NetWare starting in 1988.  His first "real" job was at
Boston Consulting Group in 1990 where he was the "computer guy" for the
Chicago office, which grew from 30 to 90 people in 4 years.  He supported
Macintosh and PCs with a NetWare environment.  Edwards moved from Chicago to
Springfield, IL, and had jobs as networking/NetWare SysAdmin at Franklin
Life Insurance (later bought by AIG), St. John's Hospital, and moonlighted
as a computer instructor at a community college.  Beginning in 1996, Edwards
started a part-time consulting practice, Rent-A-Nerd-Technologies, which
focused on home users and small businesses.  Edwards was on verge of
becoming full time when hired by Novell in 1998.  He was a consultant until
2001, then Systems Engineer until 2003, and is now a Networking and Systems
Management Category Specialist.  

            --------------------------------------

Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

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

Enter through the glass doors at the front after 6:30 PM; 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.

            --------------------------------------

Mark your calendars!

May 10 - Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat on Fedora vs. RHEL.
June 14 - Frank Novak of IBM's Linux Technology Center presenting an
overview/survey of LTC plus Q & A.
July 12 - Joseph Mack presenting on Outsourcing.

Matt Frye
Chairman, Steering Committee
North Carolina System Administrators

----- Confidentiality Notice -----
This e-mail and any attached documents contain confidential information belonging to the sending entity, Rex Healthcare, and is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity(s) associated with the recipient addresses listed in the message header.  The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from disclosing this information to any other party.  If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in reliance on the contents of the email and/or attachments is strictly prohibited.  If you received this e-mail transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately to arrange for return or destruction of this information.

To report abuse or inappropriate use, please email abuse at rexhealth.com.