CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001
contents:
Minutes (unofficial) of the meeting
Door takings balance
Notes I took of Carl Klitsher's talk
Meeting started on time at 7:30 chaired by Nick Rout
present approximately 50
The following was agreed by consensus at the meeting:
1/ That we have a meeting every second month with a speaker and a get
together most probably at a "pub" the month in between this organized meeting.
2/ That we book a venue for the bi-monthly meeting at a hall on different
nights of the week through the year. So as to make it fair on those that
can't attend on a certain night of the week.
3/That we postpone having a committee structure for as long as we can and
organize meetings over our CLUG mailing list. However the finer details
should be organized amongst the volunteers (who ever they may be at the time)
via off list email's.
( I think that the general consensus was that the Sydenham community centre
hall was a good meeting place. However I think this should be confirmed at
the next meeting when we see how many turn up for that meeting. As the hall
was filled almost to capacity for this meeting)
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Supper followed, then our presentation from our guest speaker.
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Door takings (counted by Barry and I ) $72-25
Supper expenses - $16-00
Hall hire - $15-00
= $41.75 balance
1/We have some provisions left over from supper for the next meeting
2/ I intend to put the expenses "bucket" at the door for gold coin collecting
at the next meeting/s as I think any surplus we may accumulate could come in
handy for future activities that may require further expenses.
(Such as Hall hire for daytime install fests or public demonstrations,
advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to public
libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing at the moment))
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Our Guest speaker was Carl Klitsher from IBM to do a talk on IBMs involvement
over this past year with LINUX
(The key points that I noted that he mentioned are taken from what I heard.
I can't be held responsible for any errors that I may have made. You can
correct me if you must).
1/ IBM has invested $1 billion US toward the development of LINUX this past
year.
Carl used various charts and diagrams to show where the money is being
distributed to.
2/ That they are going to sell LINUX installed hardware. Using various
distributions, as ordered by the customer
3/ They are going to remain selling "Windows" installed hardware.
4/ Concentrating on the corporate market and supplying the server market and
main frame market.
4/ That they aim to make all IBM hardware linux compatible if it isn't
already, from IBM wrist watch computers right through to main frames.
5/ That they are going to sell software support with the hardware
6/ They have no intention at the moment to supply linux installed desktop
computers. If MS office or Lotus office was on the LINUX desktop then it may
be a different story.
7/ That according to IDC surveys of which IBM has carefully scrutinized they
predict that by 2004 the server growth of Linux computers will be 28.4% LINUX
to 21.4% NT (or win 2000).
8/ Half of IBM main frames sold this year are using LINUX.
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And in General Carl mentioned the following:
That 40% of all Internet servers are currently running linux.
That 65% of web servers are running APACHE
Canterbury District Health are running linux servers for their image capture
intra-net.
NY stock exchange have recently changed to using LINUX supported by IBM
Shell Oil Exploration are using linux. (and use a cluster of 1200 machines)
Google search engine use a linux cluster of 5000 machines.
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Carls presentation was applauded.
Links of interest:
www.ibm.com/linux
www.ibm.com/nz
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Nick Elder
