<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td id="fi" valign="top">SPEAKER FOR DECEMBER<br></td></tr></tbody></table><span><br>I got a speaker for December ... blurb below. My two cents: This is a GREAT speaker. I've seen him myself and he was very motivational and overall just awesome. He was at SCALE last year and gave a talk on "How to Be a Consultant" for those of you who went to that...
<br><br>(Mike/Tom - if you could put this on the site that'd be awesome, and Mike, if we could have the streaming stuff done for this that'd be awesomer :D)<br><br>As with every big speaker, let's hype this up guys. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the LUG this Thursday (father's birthday) ... but start the hype early, let's get a good (*cough* heated *cough*) crowd ;)
<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Why Linux needs to be more like Windows<br><br> -or-<br><br>Impediments to enterprise Linux adoption<br><br>Our speaker is Steve Friedl, a software consultant in Orange County
<br>who's been using UNIX since the early eighties, using Windows since the<br>late eighties, and has more than 20 years of cross-platform consulting<br>and commercial software development experience. He has taught advanced
<br>C/UNIX at Bell Labs, and is the only Microsoft MVP with "unix" in his<br>domain name (<a href="http://unixwiz.net">unixwiz.net</a>).<br><br>He'll be making the case that Linux has some stumbling blocks that make
<br>enterprise management and deployment much more difficult than they need<br>to be, and what road there might be to make some progress on these fronts.<br><br>P.S. Steve told me something about having a Linux registry...
<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Gallizzi </span>