Linux and Commercial UNIX: Adversaries or Bedfellows?

Date and Time

Wednesday, April 17, 1996 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building 4-163

Presenters

Jon "maddog" Hall - jon.maddog.hall gmail com

Summary

Abstract

A discussion of Linux vs Commercial UNIX, what each brings to the table and whether or not they can co-exist in a changing marketplace from a hardware vendor's perspective. A discussion of what Digital is doing to help the Linux market.

Bio

Jon "maddog" Hall is the Board Chair of the Linux Professional Institute, Co-founder of Caninos Loucos, the President of Project Caua and the President of Linux International. Since 1969 Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, educator, author, CEO and consultant. Mr. Hall has worked for companies like Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, IBM, SGI and Futura Networks (Campus Party) as well as being a private consultant. Mr Hall worked on Unix systems since 1980 and Linux systems since 1994, when he first met Linus Torvalds and recognized the commercial importance of FOSS. Mr. Hall has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College. Mr. Hall is the author of many magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies". He writes a monthly article for Linux Pro Magazine. Mr. Hall has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia, Canada and Brazil as well as the UN and many local and state governments. Mr. Hall is on the advisory board of the University of Sao Paulo's Centro Interdisciplinar Em Tecnologias Interativas (CITI). Mr. Hall traveled to over 100 countries speaking on the benefits of FOSS. Mr. Hall received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973), and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York (1977).