BayLISA May General Meeting - OpenSolaris May 15, 2008

OpenSolaris - Alan DuBoff

May's meeting will host Alan DuBoff of Sun Microsystems speaking on the new release of OpenSolaris, formerly known as Project Indiana. Alan will also be showing some of the open source software currently being developed between Sun and the communities. Such software would include Virtual Box, OpenOffice, MySQL, Xen/Xvm. Alan is currently involved in a project to port flask/type_enforcement to OpenSolaris with a project called Flexible Mandatory Access Control (FMAC). Alan also currently works in the Solaris x86 IHV/OEM group where he works with both hardware and software vendors, as well as working with the OpenSolaris community with part of his time.

Alan has been working at Sun Microsystems for close to 5 years. Prior to working at Sun, Alan was a lead engineer on the Kerbango Internet Radio project, one of the early adopters of Monta Vista Embedded Linux. Alan worked at VA Linux Systems (and VA Research before that;-) where he wrote and maintained the backend of their order/entry system for about 1.5 years. He worked on WebVan for a year before going to VA, and has been a consultant around Silicon Valley for close to 15 years, working at most large companies such as IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and a host of others. Alan has been consulting to the high tech industry for more than 25 years.

Alan founded and is President of the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group (SVOSUG) which meets in Santa Clara, CA, at the Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Campus. He has run user groups with IBM, Microsoft, and Heathkit in the past, as well as being a long standing member in the communities of BayLISA, SVLUG, Debian, and the BSD. He has given presentations at the LISA conferences as well as OSCON, JavaOne, and Sun Network.

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