On october 29 the dutch Unix users group (NLUUG) organized the fall conference in congress center De Reehorst in Ede, Netherlands. This conference topic was “The Open Web”. It was to celebrate 20 years of the World Wide Web. It not only focussed on threads and challenges of today and tomorrow, but also on opportunities like integration and securing your web server with the Yubikey in combination with digital certificates.
Sun Microsystems was present with the NLOSUG; the dutch OpenSolaris User Group. The stand was manned by Kristian, Matt, Jan and myself. Kristian did an excellent job showing the advantages of Dtrace during web development. Matt showed the Snowman and Darkstar demos using the project Darkstar OpenSource gaming backend.
Many questions we got at the desk were about OpenSolaris and it's features. Much questions about ZFS, backups, DTrace and virtualization; but also much interest in how to setup a Sun Ray deployment properly, VDI and how to develop web applications using NetBeans.
On May 6 2010 the NLUUG will organize the spring conference. The title is “System Administration” and aims to extend and deepen the knowledge of system administrators. Interested in attending this conference or interested in participating? Please see the NLUUG website for more information.
