Devops Needs Sushi
Next month I`ll be teaching a course on Virtualization at the KULAK.
Apart from my training there is also a Puppet training planned in Belgium.
As I assisted Luke in finding a location for the training I tought it might be a good idea to have a Puppet Users meetup while some people are already gathering in Leuven
Current plan is to meet up somewhere in Leuven on the evening of the 25th , more announcements later ..
RedHat announced the launch of the Open Source Channel Alliance, and different folks already commented on it ..
Frankly I think the Open Source “Channel” shouldn’t exist ..
So let’s take a step back and see what the “Channel” actually means.
It used to mean that a vendor didn’t want to manage the logistics of shipping and delivering his product to the end user, you know .. like the big boxen used 3rd parties to provide the logistics, often that “enduser” being a local system integrator that wasn’t allowed, and still isn’t, to order his stuff from the actual vendor, either because he is ordering in too small quantities or any other reasons. Logistics became marketing support , offering training and sometimes presales support.
Tarus , when at the UKUUG conference a member of the order of the Green Polo was presenting last month , I was wondering why he wasn’t wearing his Green Polo.
Now I know… it’s just like these ugly Green Jackets at the Masters, you have to return them to Augusta after one year :)
So yesterday a 100+ crowd met in the Antwerp Zoo.
I heard different comments from that crowd… some of them liked the event, good networking, interresting topics , a broad overview, meeting new vendors active in the Cloud, others of them didn’t .. it wasn’t a real camp , just some vendors pitching, they didn’t hear any new stuff , or we didn’t touch the real stuff.
So different opinions from different expectations…
When you eventually will buy Sun ..
Oh nooos.. I started this post last week and now it al seems in vain :(
Steven has some clues on what could have happened, I think he is right on the spot on with his Solaris prediction ..
He wonders why IBM would spend even another dime on Solaris, actually even today I can’t even see why Sun is spending any more money on developing Solaris. But even with no acquisition his prediction of the future of Open Solaris imvho is spot on:
In case you hadn’t noticed.. the previous post was an Aprils Fool joke ..
We had a good laugh at different people actually believing that we planned on rebranding to Pinuits, but we’ll stay Inuits , But maybe next year we’ll rebrand to Linuits :)
So the cat is out of the bag,
As of today Inuits is rebranding to Pinuits,
The press release is here
We’ve had good feedback on the new name so far. Different people told me the name matched better to what we are doing . Actually my wife thinks our new name is much better as at least the Pin in Pinuits refers to our favourite Tux again ..
Finding an appropriate name for an Open Source consultancy company, with focus on Linux, Open Source Monitoring, MySQL, Open Source Virtualization , Large Scale Deployments , High Availability and Drupal, isn’t easy .. you want to show both community involvement and professionality. And find a domain that’s still available.
I’ve updated the slidedeck of my Open Source Virtualization talk, with the 2009 edition as I gave it last week at the UKUUG Spring conference.
Talk is up, both on my page as on SlideShare
View more presentations from Kris Buytaert.
Tom also updated our set of Open Source Monitoring Tool Shootout slides .
They are also on SlideShare
Open Source Monitoring Tools Shootout
View more presentations from tomdc.
Last week the UKUUG Spring , Large Scale Infrastructure conference took place in London,
Altough only 1 track was scheduled, the content was very good, some talks were a bit short, others were a bit too long. And luckily the talks that didn’t really bring me new content were entertaining :) Also the after conf chatter in the pub across the street was so much fun we almost failed to catch our plane back to Antwerp.
There are a lot of great Open Source conferences out there, some of them organized by volunteers, some of them oranized by user groups, some by commecial entities, but none of them is so open as the last DrupalCon,
In all its awesomeness the DrupalCon DC organization actually
published it’s internal financial details for everybody to view.
Try beating that :)
Oh and while we are talking about conferences .. Fosdem has a YouTube channel with a lot of recorded fosdem talks available.