Message from the Mavens

We would like to thank everyone who joined us at our open house on October 29th. We enjoyed having the opportunity to strengthen existing relationships and build new ones. We wouid also like to thank Citrix, IBM, VMware, Compellent, Syncsort, Digium, Polycom, and Zultys for their sponsorship and participation. Pictures from the Open House will be posted soon.

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to Garret Ohm, of The Sutter Group, who won the Playstation 3!

Congratulations to Rachel Rachfal of ACG Systems, who won the Zune media package.

Annapolis Linux Users Group
Meetings to be Held at Mavenspire Office on the first Monday of each month.
Meeting Time: 7PM-9PM

Corporate Training and Videoconferencing space is available. Our facility has high speed wireless and a place for more formal presentations.

Parking: There is a large lot east of the main section that has over 30 parking spots

Mavenspire 's Got Legs!

That's right. Mavenspre's got legs, and we are all over the place! Regular readers will already know that we hired two additional sales people in September. These two go-getters have been networking crazy. We've been building our network and parterships to a whole new level. In addition, we were able to bring IBM to the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council at our Open House. Like I said: We've got legs, baby! We're all over the place!

To all of our customers and partners,
we hope you had a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Updates

Novell

openSUSE 11.2

Zultys

MXmeeting™ 4.1
Video Webcast Feature for MXmeetingTM 4.1 Scalable Web Conferencing & Collaboration Solution

Going from VI3 to vSphere 4
Written by Michael Tanenhaus

VMware released the new version of its datacenter product, dubbed vSphere, back in May, and many customers are still waiting to do their upgrades. Many don't want to move until the first service pack — safety first, right? — but beyond that, the last two years have been very transitional for virtualization.

How do I make the transition?

Which Linux Are You?
Written by Melissa Cavanaugh

For those not familiar with Linux, it is an operating system used as an alternative to Windows or Mac. Unlike either of those, however, Linux comes in many flavors/distributions from different sources. Which Linux you would use depends on your needs.

TIP OF THE MONTH:
Twitter Apps I Like for Work
Written by Melissa Cavanaugh

With Twitter poised to take over the world, people are pretty much ditching the original idea of the service, which was to be able to do updates from your phone. There are so many programs out there which are designed to let you do all sorts of things with Twitter; even a way around the 140 character limit!

I'm going to skip the bit about how Twitter can benefit your business. Instead, I'm going to dig up some of the applications that can help you better utilize Twitter. There are lots and lots. I'll just highlight a few of my favorites for desktop use (not web or mobile/phone).