Future Linux deployment
With Juergen Geck.
Now we have moved from the testing lab into real production at corporations large and small.
One of the key trends will be the transition of Linux deployments from individually managed efforts to IT-driven professional strategic initiatives.
This talk will focus on how Linux deployments are likely to develop within the enterprise and for the home user, and what technology opportunities there are to further develop the Linux and make it more suitable for wide-scale deployment.
Juergen Geck
Chief Technology Officer SUSE LINUX at Novell Juergen Geck, born 1967, joined SUSE in 1997, and served since early 2000 as Vice President Technology Partners. He built strong alliances with partners AMD, Fujitsu-Siemens-Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP.
Geck built a framework for SUSE to cooperate with all major hardware vendors and CPU manufacturers. In 2002, he introduced SUSE's Technology Partner Program to provide a scalable offering for all SUSE partners. Juergen also helped design SUSE's flagship product, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server and its maintenance model, enabling the first enterprise Linux offering in the market.
He holds a masters degree in production engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany.
Since February 2004, Geck is responsible for aligning and communicating the SUSE LINUX technology strategy for Novell. He was instrumental in the conception of Novell's YaST open source project, an open source systems management project that for the first time provides a platform on which to tie together disparate systems using current systems management tools.