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 | Posted by: ironfist on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 11:09
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| | | | Me and Lisardman of Pegasos.org went to LinuxWorld Summit in Stockholm last Tuesday. Click 'Read more' to read all about it!
Last Tuesday LinuxWorld Summit was held for the first time in Sweden. Me and Mikael 'Lisardman' Karlsson decided to go there. No Linux-geek can afford to miss something like this. Mikael's employer sent him and I got a free entrance ticket from Sun, through the Swedish OpenSolaris usergroup (thank you Kjell Högström!).
At 05:37 the train left Gothenburg where I live and I was really tired. After an hour Mikael came onboard and we had two hours go to. At 09:00 we arrived in Stockholm and took the first cab to Cirkus and LinuxWorld.
Train picture
We came when the opening speaker, Per Andersen from IDC talked about Linux , the future and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). He had a firm belief that there will be two dominant platforms in the future and that is Windows and Linux. Linux will take market from UNIX when old UNIX systems are replaced.
Oskar Swirtun from Ericsson took over and talked about the Linux-usage at Ericsson. They are one of Novell's largest customers and use it alot in their labs. For the AXE telesystem they used their own operating system before but now they switch over to Linux. With Linux they have an uptime of "The Five Nines" - 99.99999%. They also use Linux in a product called IP Multimedia Subsystem (IPMS).
Picture of Oskar Swirtun
After Ericsson it was time for WM-Data. Jesper Gummeson and Christer Berglund talked about their Personal Administrations system Raindance and how they implemented it to 8000 users to Västra Götalands Regionen - which includes hospitals, public transportation, dentists and the Opera of Gothenburg. Before they ran this on a bunch of Solaris servers, but in 2003 the contract was re-negotiated and they went to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter instead. Before, Raindance was run from servers at each location but with Linux they centralized everything to their own datacenter at WM-Data. This makes maintainance easier with less downtime.
Raindance migration
Ongame was next. They were bought by Bwin a while ago. Bwin is a big poker and bettings network. Ongame moved their entire webserver platform over to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP-servers. The gaming platform is Java-based and their MySQL server have about 3000 queries per second and 25000 concurrent players. The security is like a bank and they have about 100 money transfers every minute and between 25 and 37 million USD in game turnover all the time.
Ongame representatives
After lunch it was time to the first keynote. Giancario Succi from Italy talked about Linux migration and the COSPA project. As with many platform migrations the TCO is the most important factor. He talked about TCO and how it's generally alot cheaper to implement Linux than stay with Microsoft Windows. There are many cities who successfully switched to Linux and saved alot. There is also an isolated example where the cost was higher than Windows XP. He did not go into details about this.
After the keynote the audience was split up in a technical and strategic focus for the next seminars. We chose the technical track and listened to Matthias Eckermann from Novell Germany. He talked about virtualization and Xen. Xen is integrated in the Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 and is production-ready. He told us how much datacenters can save with virtualization compared to have dedicated servers for everything. For Novell NetWare users he told to virtualize the NetWare server since it is not beeing developed anymore. Their focus is Linux.
Matthias Eckermann
The second technical speaker was Bert Rubaszkin, CTO on Sun Microsystems, Sweden. The open-source work at Sun is mostly OpenSolaris. He talked about the filosophy behind open-source and community driven projects and operating systems. Since this was LinuxWorld he never went into any details of OpenSolaris.
Bert Rubaszkin
After Sun Microsystems it was time for Karl Soukup and Wind River. Wind River work with Linux on mobile phone systems. There are currently about 35-40 different mobile phones shipping with Linux. Not many of these phones are available in Europe, but mostly in Asia and USA. The manufacturers chose Linux over Microsoft PocketPC for smartphones so they can customize the user interface as much as they want. People wants to distinguish their desktop computer with their smartphone. They don't want Windows XP there.
Karl Soukup
The second and last keynote was done by Jon "Mad Dog" Hall, president of Linux International. He talked of the wonderful world of Linux. He told us that Linux was the answer of almost everything. There is only one time where he doesn't recommend Linux and that is when the currently running systems works totally flawlessly and the cost is minimal. If Linux won't help in any way - don't touch the system, just let it run. Jon Hall's job is to travel around the world and evangelize Linux. He also told companies to hired an open-source developer for new systems over purchasing a properitary system you may not even get the sources for. So when your supplier goes belly-up you can't do very much but praying your system won't break. Jon Hall gave us a few Brazilian examples where properitary solutions were way too expensive, and in English only. They didn't want to translate to Portuguese because "it was not in their best business interest".
Jon "Mad Dog" Hall
The time was now past 17:00 and we had to leave to catch the train home at 18:15. We called for a cab and had some dinner before travelling for three hours.
I think this event was a great success and I don't regret spending alot on travel at all. Hopefully there will be a LinuxWorld in Sweden next year, we can only hope. If it does I recommend all of you to visit it. The entrance fee is quite high for a person but ask your employer to sponsor you. It is money well spent. I also want to apologize for the rather low quality of the photos. But my camera isn't very good at photographing from darkness to a well-lightened stage. Using the flash makes the picture too dark.
I would also like to thank Genesi for sponsoring this little trip.
More pictures
/Kristian E, Pegasos.org Editor.
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by Trizt on Sep 09, 2006 - 04:24
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Thanks, hope they can be in GBG next time...
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