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Andy de la Lucha
system administrator, Mentor Graphics

Website | @thesethings

I’m a Linux system administrator in Portland, Oregon. But that’s not all.

I’m the most emo system administrator ever. I cry when make fails.

But for serious: Ubuntu, Drupal,virtualization.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Open Source Virtualization for People Who Feel Guilty About Using VMware So Much

Administration
Location: Portland 255

Andy de la Lucha (Mentor Graphics)

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VMware has a place at the top of the virtualization industry, but is not open source, gets expensive, and can feel claustrophobic as VMware "makes a tool for every job." This talk will go over open source equivalents to the most prominent VMware products, existing high-profile uses, and how existing VMware deployments can co-exist with open source virtualization. Read more.