I'm getting ready to head down to Atlanta for a couple of days next
week for the
Large Installation System Administration
Conference, otherwise known as LISA. (I like the girl's name
much better than the long, official-sounding version, but anyway.) Sun
will be there big time, and
Dan Price talks about what
you'll find from us -- the booth, the BOFs, and the paper that he and
Andy Tucker are presenting.
Here's the outline for the
Solaris 10 platform BOF:
BOF: Solaris 10: Where we are, Where we
are headed
Date: Thursday, November 18
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Yukon/Mackenzie/Rio Grande
Join
Dan Price, senior
kernel engineer, and
Andrew
Tucker, Sun distinguished engineer, and other members of the
Solaris kernel team for a discussion on the
latest features in
the Solaris platform, such as Solaris Containers (Zones), DTrace, and
Predictive Self Healing (Service Management Facility (SMF) and Fault
Management Architecture (FMA)). Solaris 10
represents Sun's most significant operating system update ever with
hundreds
of new features and critical performance, interoperability, and
scalability enhancements.
Additionally, Sun
is moving Solaris to an
open
source development model and has implemented an early pilot program for
the project. Meet the team that's making it all happen, ask
your questions, and offer your feedback. There will be plenty of food,
T-shirts, demos, and conversation.
So the BOF is about the Solaris 10 platform, basically, and that's huge
since the launch is on Monday. But the guys will also answer questions
about OpenSolaris as well. I'll be working the crowd, too, talking to
people who may be interested in checking out the
OpenSolaris Pilot
Program. We still have some space, but the line is really
getting long now, and I'm swamped following up with everyone asking to
participate. So, what to do? Well, go out and get still
more potential
participants, so I'm
more swamped.
:) Makes perfect sense. No, seriously ... LISA attracts some of Sun's
most important customers, so I want to get their perspective and bring
some of them into the program. I'm trying to populate the OpenSolaris
Pilot Program with as much diversity as possible, so we have some big
customers in there as well as individual developers hacking at three in
the morning and on their spare time. Both groups are equally important.
