Thanks nick for those mins... I was at the back and found it hard to hear carl... which was a bit of a shame...
Johnno ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Elder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 08:21 Subject: CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001 > > 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) > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > Supper followed, then our presentation from our guest speaker. > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > 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)) > > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > 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. > -------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Carls presentation was applauded. > > Links of interest: > > www.ibm.com/linux > www.ibm.com/nz > > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > Nick Elder > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
