[Cialug] Meeting - Wednesday 19th

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Has anyone looked at VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)? I recently 
installed it on my Linux machine at home. It appears very similar to 
VMWare's desktop product, though it has not been around for quite as 
many years. The thing i most like is that it is open source. There is 
also a commercial version with a couple extra features. The commercial 
version is free-as-in-beer for personal use, testing, and academia, 
though costs money for companies.

On Thursday 20 September 2007 15:47, Josh More wrote:
>Dave,
>
>There's not much to give on the new virtualization users group, but
>here is what we have:
>
>
>1) Focus will be on virtualization technologies in general but in
>depth.  Expected technologies include:
>   a) VMWare
>   b) Xen
>   c) Citrix
>   d) VirtualIron (if anyone cares)
>
>2) We will look to existing partnerships to bring in presenters from
>virtualization companies, but they will be technical, not
> sales-related. Ideally, they'll bring fun giveaways too.
>
>3) The meetings will be at Alliance to start, but once the group gets
>going if they want to meet elsewhere, that's fine by us.
>
>4) Meetings will be once a month
>
>5) There will be a website and mailing list
>
>Really, that's all we know right now.  The next step would be to get
>people other than Michael, Theron, and myself to express an interest.
>That way, we can pick a meeting time that works for everyone, set a
>topic schedule and start lining up speakers.
>
>If you're interested, please email me directly.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
>
>>>> David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> 09/20/07 12:56 PM >>>
>
>Josh More wrote:
>> Please remember that we have a meeting this coming Wednesday.  The
>> theme this month is Virtualization, and we will have short talks by
>> Stephen Webb, Michael Keen, and Theron Conrey (all recently returned
>> from VMWorld).  I also expect to talk a bit about the new website.
>
>Thanks to the presenters at the meeting last night - that was good
>stuff. As people pointed out, Virtualization is going to be huge in
>the
>IT industry.
>
>Josh, can you give us more info on the Virtualization users group
>that's
>forming?
>
>-dc
>
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