Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:17:18 -0400 From: Jerry Kubeck Subject: Meeting - May 18 The Merrimack (MerriLug) meeting is Thursday night 7 pm at Martha's Exchange, 185 Main St., Nashua, NH. We are being treated to a presentation by teh SuSE team on teh new SuSE 6.4 as well as a presetnation on Linux-HA. Here is the release sent to me by SuSE This was just sent to me by Seth Payne of SuSE. Two short years ago, skeptics used to complain, "Linux will never succeed... There are no large companies behind the platform... There's no support... There is no top tier relational database for Linux... There is no journaling filesystem and how can you expect me to deploy it in a production environment when there is no high availability?" It took some time, but one by one, each of these criticisms has been bowled over by the ever-accelerating snowball of Linux. Based in Nurnberg, Germany, SuSE AG is a global software company that among other things, produces the well-known Linux distribution by the same name. In addition, SuSE is pushing the envelope of production-level Linux that is appropriate for use by banks, trading houses and other entities with IT infrastructures that simply can not go down. High availability enables you to link two or more servers together so that one transparently picks up the computing load should the other fail. SuSE's HA solution removes any single point of failure and allows applications to increase availability to the level required for mission-critical data center operations. This failover capability is an important component of the maturation of Linux as complete enterprise computing environment. Recognized for his work in the Linux FailSafe, Linux Virtual Server, Linux HA, and Heartbeart projects, Lars Marowsky-BrČe will answer your questions and showcase the cutting edge of high availability Linux. This is a very technical meeting, but should not be missed by either newbie or elitist. Hope to see a lot of you there. Make your reservations for dinner with Paul at: pll@mclinux.com Jerry ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Kubeck Customer Support Appropriate Solutions, Inc. jkubeck@AppropriateSolutions.com www.AppropriateSolutions.com ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to majordomo@zk3.dec.com with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug-announce **********************************************************