OT: Oracle at ALE meeting (Central) this Thursday

[aaron <aaron@pd.org>]

A step Off Topic, but possibly of interest to some here:
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Mr. Todd Tichler and Mr. Sunil Mushran of Oracle are travelling to Atlanta on 
Thursday, April 10 to provide the main presentation for this month's ALE 
Central meeting, held in Emory Law School lecture room 1C at 7:30pm.
[directions and details at www.ale.org].

Sunil Mushran is a member of Oracle's Linux Development Team and will
be speaking about the Oracle Clustering File System for the Linux kernel:
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OCFS is a clustered file system written at Oracle for the Linux kernel (as a
file system module), and released under the GNU GPL. The presentation will
describe the basics of OCFS, process architecture, disk layout, advantages
of extent based systems and locking strategies. Lay out the reasoning behind
our design choices, what we've learned from those, and future OCFS
improvements.

Sunil is a 9 year veteran at Oracle. He started working on Linux
when he joined a small group in the company which had the task to build
the New Internet Computer, a Linux-based web appliance. Since 2001, he has
been working on the Oracle Cluster File System on Linux.
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An added bonus is that everyone attending the presentation will receive a
CD package of Oracle's Linux database and Open Source development tools 
(including the 9i J2EE Web Services / Application ServerDeveloper CD).
The software can be used freely for personal, non-profit and development 
applications or easily licensed for commercial use.

Additional details can be found at the 'Oracle on Linux' resources site:
  http://otn.oracle.com/linux

Also note that our generous friends from Oracle are planing to visit us again 
on May 15th with a second presentation at the monthly ALE North West
meeting, third Thursdays on the campus of Kennesaw State. 

:-)
Finally, we politely ask that all attending this Oracle presentation at ALE 
Central honor Generic User Group  rule #2 and refrain from abusing the
OCFS acronym in any way... 
    ...if anybody's watching...
:-)

Thanks for your attention!
Hope to see you at ALE on Thursday!

peace
Aaron Ruscetta
Associate ALE Central Meeting Coordinator



PS:
For anyone who is not certain, the answer is yes: "GNU GPL"
is a redundant recursive acronym.