A reminder that from 5:45 to 8:30 we'll be having our inaugural Open Source Pizza tonight at the Marine Sciences Auditorium at The University of Hawaii. For directions, go to
http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap/ and click on Marine Science [E4] Novell will be our first guests, and Jim Thompson will preview next month's Open Source Pizza topic. Please join us if you can. It will be fun. --scott Topic for September 20, 2005 5:45 - 8:30 Novell is moving full force into the world of Open Source Software (OSS). With partners like IBM, HP, Dell, Oracle, Intel, and many others Novell is quickly making headway into this new market place. While being a standards based company in its own right Novell continues that effort and assures its customers and partners that it intends to deliver standards based solutions that interoperate with existing and new technologies. Join us to find out about Novell's internal migration to Linux and to hear some intriguing case studies. About the speakers: Brian Six finished high school with a focus in computers and computer networking architecture. After college with a CS in Computer Science he began working with a software company as a programmer. During his time at the software company he moved from programmer/developer to designer. After 4.5 yrs Brian left the software design field to begin working at a systems integrator performing network designs and installations. During his 4 yrs there he was promoted to senior networking engineer over LAN and desktop environments. Since then Brian has worked at Novell for 9 yrs as a Senior Systems Engineer delivering presentations and solutions evaluations to customers, partners, and marketing events. In college John Neilson initially studied to become a computer science major where he learned Fortran, Pascal and Basic programming. During his course of study he recognized his real interest was in business and how computers could benefit companies. John graduated with a Bachelor degree in Business with an emphasis in Sales Management. For the past fifteen years John has sold technology as a VAR, Distributor, and end-users sales representative. John has been directly or indirectly involved in selling enterprise solutions which include HP-UX, DEC, AIX, EMC, Oracle, E-Commerce, LINUX, Resource Management and Identity Driven solutions. John has been with Novell for the past 2½ years where he works with Novell business partners to sell to his 3000 accounts in the Los Angeles, Orange County and Hawaiian Islands territory. This November, John will complete his MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.