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Ximian – five years ago

by | Aug 5, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

It was five years ago this week that Novell acquired Ximian.

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/08/pr03051.html

I clearly remember heading to the Ximian offices at the back of Fenway Park in Boston a few weeks after the acquisition; my task was to meet with the Red Carpet Enterprise team and work on integration plans with ZENworks.

I arrived at the offices at around 8.30am – and waited until around 9.15 before someone turned up. The RCE team started heading in at around lunch time. I quickly learned that they worked like me 🙂 Work late, up late.

So started one of the most rewarding and exciting times of my time at Novell. The Red Carpet Enterprise team were an incredible team – I don’t think any of us are left at Novell.

RCE evolved into ZENworks Linux Management and then became the underpinning technology for ZENworks Configuration Management.

ITIL v3 Managers Bridge

by | Jul 25, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Big grins this morning. I got an email overnight from Brisbane – the results are in.

I passed the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge – it was an 80% pass score and I got 95%

I’m just waiting for the certificate to arrive in the post – but this means I am an ‘ITIL Expert’

Server retirement

by | Jul 24, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

One of the last things I did before the move was to move some of the retired servers from physical to virtual. The hosts were all SLES 10 – so I did the move to VMware server; the idea being that if I needed anything off the server could find it again.

This week I needed to move one of my previously hosted sites to another host – and I couldn’t find the pesky virtual hard disk. Eventually I found it lurking on a backup server.

Sigh.