MVMRUG January 23, 2004 Meeting

Our first meeting of 2004 was held in Columbus, Ohio, the home of the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Ohio state capitol.

NiSource hosted a delicious continental breakfast and we ate our lunch in the cafeteria. Additional beverages and cookies were served in the afternoon during speaker presentations. It was a great meeting, (wonderful speakers, old friends, new friends and the opportunity to gain more knowledge)! We also had the privilege of meeing several new people who attended the meeting for the first time.

Location: NiSource, Columbus, Ohio

NiSource (formerly Columbia Energy Group Service Corporation), is located at 1600 Dublin Road, Columbus, Ohio 43215 at the intersection of Dublin Road and Fifth Avenue. The accommodations were quite nice and a very special "thank you" is extended to NiSource for their hospitality.

Thursday Night Dinner & Social

"Cozymels" at Tuttle Crossing hosted our Thursday night dinner and social. The food was very good and the conversation was very enjoyable. If you like Mexican food, be sure to visit the restaurant the next time you are in Columbus. You won't be disappointed!

Agenda:

Nationally known speakers presented on the following topics:

 
    A.  Roundtable: What's Happening with Linux in Your Shop?
        Led by Tom Geyer and Bernie Bader, The Timken Company
 
    B.  Performance Considerations for guests of z/VM
        Bill Bitner, IBM
 
    C.  Performance Toolkit for VM
        Bill Bitner, IBM
 
    D.  Server Consolidation with zSeries Linux:
        What Works, What Doesn't and Why
        Scott Courtney, Sine Nomine Associates
 
    E.  FREE-FOR-ALL
        During this regularly scheduled session, let the assembled VM
        gurus answer your VM or CMS questions.
 
 

For additional information and the abstracts, check out our detailed agenda .

A warm welcome to the following first time attendees:

• Bill Bitner, IBM
• Janet Howe, Nationwide
• Alice Jackson, Ohio State University
• Patrick Kelly, State Teacher's Retirement Systems
• Jim Klun, SCI
• Rob Newell, State Teacher's Retirement Systems
• Park Stafford, Foresight Technology Group

A special "Thank You" to each of our speakers: