[Announce-NYCBUG] August 3rd NYCBUG Meeting

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The New York City *BSD User Group Presents:

August 03, 2005

Hildo Biersma: Challenges of large Unix environment

6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street

Hildo Biersma has worked at a large Wall Street firm since 2000 and uses 
open-source tools to manage commercial software products such as IBM 
MQSeries and DB2. Before 2000, he was a perl/Unix/C++ trainer and web 
consultant.

The firm I work at has a large Unix environment (over 5,000 servers) 
that are kept as identical as possible through the use of networked file 
systems to hold programs, combined with centralized large-scale 
administration tools.

The presentation will provide a minimal introduction of the environment, 
then focus on the challenges that this environment poses when 
integrating software, new hardware, or new operating systems. It will 
highlight both the pros and cons of open source software and OSes.

I expect a lively discussion of why *BSD and the ports system are not 
suitable, in their current form, to replace the Linux systems in use at 
our firm.