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About the Presentation:

VMWare allows multiple virtual machines to run all at the same time on one physical computer. Businesses use this to take better advantage of their hardware and to save space in the data center. Individuals can use it to experiment with different operating systems and not worry if they blow something up (in software anyway). Carl will show how to load VMware ESXi 4 on a 64-bit processor server (Note, the server is NOT a door prize :) ). The ESXi 4 is available for free to individuals from VMware. The free version is a great way to get your hands dirty with VMware ESX for free, and to have a really cool server that can run multiple VMs on it!

About the Presenter:

Carl has over 29 years of computer experience. His first PC was a PDP-11 running RT-11 in a back closet of a raised floor computer room at Racal-Milgo in Miami when Racal-Milgo Modems were the hot items. His long term work has been mostly in OpenVMS. In late 80s, Carl worked on a few Unix OS for miniframes, like V7M for PDP-11 and Ultrix for MicroVax, when the internet was mostly UUCP connections between computers and email addresses had "!" (called BANG) in them and news groups ruled the internet. But after meeting a young talented Grad Student from Finland (Linus Torvalds) at the 1995 DEC Users Group convention in Washington, D.C. decided to give a new Unix Operation system a look over, the LINUX operating system. Since then, Carl has been working on integration projects between OpenVMS, Linux and that other M$ brands. Currently, Carl is working for Commcare Pharmacy as their Director of IT which uses Linux, Oracle, MySQL, VMware and other Open Source programs to run all critical business requirements for Commcare

Note that we will be meeting the THIRD Thursday of the month instead of our usual second Thursday. So be careful when you ...