David Allen - President, CR Consulting

This was a very interesting discussion, and really brings to light the efforts that are being made to insure your Linux servers (and desktops) have some type of pre-emptive or early warning monitoring and alerting systems.
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Dell is taking a look at the desktop and the evolution in Linux.

Dell is one of the hardware vendors that are offering Linux as a desktop preload solution with certain hardware purchases. Like any hardware OEM - they aren’t sharing any numbers. My guess is, the debate on the Linux desktop numbers will continue to be a mystery.
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Presentation by John Walicki, Linux Foundation Desktop Workgroup, IBM
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Keynote address - LinuxWorld - Linux, Open Source, and IBM - The Next Decade
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I had a chance to visit Fusion-IO - vendor of high quality medium cost solid state hard drives.  What sets them apart from their competitors?  Shear speed!  I had the cahnce to talk to one of their “sales engineers” and got a quick glimpse of their impressive drive technology.

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