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April Meeting: HP & Linux

Date: April 9th, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Omniture, Inc.

PLUG:

Forsythe is sponsoring a special PLUG meeting this month. Robert Weirick, Unix Consultant at Hewlett Packard, will be addressing the group. Robert will discuss HP's Linux roadmap, as well as address the offerings HP brings to the open source community. It is wonderful to see large IT organizations like Forsythe and HP recognize PLUG. HP is a major contributor to open-source software, including the Linux kernel (top 15 contributor). Plan on attending to show support for their interest in our community.


Hewlett-Packard Company provides various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services worldwide. The company's Enterprise Storage and Servers segment provides storage and server products in industry standard servers, business critical systems, and StorageWorks offerings. Its HP Services segment offers a portfolio of multi vendor IT services, such as technology, consulting and integration, and outsourcing services. Hewlett-Packard's HP Software segment offers a suite of business technology optimization software solutions comprising support that allow customers to manage and automate their IT infrastructure, operations, applications, IT services, and business processes


Forsythe helps organizations across all industries solve business problems and meet key business objectives through technology. We serve as a trusted, independent advisor, offering technology and business consulting services, technology leasing, and products from all leading IT infrastructure manufacturers. Forsythe is comprised of more than 800 professionals working from more than 50 offices in the United States and western Canada.

iProvo

City

Provo

Website

http://www.iprovo.net

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Number Of Employees

1-40

FOSS Job Types

Network Administrator
Database Administrator
Other IT Positions

FOSS Uses

Servers
Embedded Devices

FOSS Value

Very High Value

Mission Critical Linux Use

Yes

Description

iProvo provides triple play services (data, voice, video) via fiber to residences and businesses throughout Provo and other cities via the UTOPIA network. Linux and FOSS are used for nearly all network and operations servers in the iProvo project. Embedded Linux is also used as the primary OS on the IPTV set top boxes used by iProvo video customers.

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