The Solaris Special Interest Group (SIG) has been
active since 2005 in a different guise, as London OpenSolaris User Group
(LOSUG). The group was formed with the help of Sun Microsystems to enhance the
popularity of their next release of their operating system OpenSolaris. The
world has changed a lot since then, but the UKOUG Solaris SIG has kept up with the
changes in Oracle Solaris 11 and open source Solaris-based derivatives and still
remains an independently run group.
Our events run
frequently, in the evening on the third Wednesday of each month. We have presentations
given by professionals who are experts in their field, including Oracle Solaris
developers and professionals as well as industry Solaris experts. Our members
come from varied backgrounds including IT architects and engineers, analysts,
system administrators, developers and many more. The events take place in the
London Oracle City offices and are very popular, not just for the vast range of
presentations, but also for the fact that participants and attendees can mingle
and network with Solaris specialists, in a relaxed atmosphere over food and
refreshments.
The presentations are promoted via the UKOUG website and our social media channels where infromation about about our next talks can be found:
These are the talks we have had so far this year:
December 2012 - Peter Tribble : How Zones served Queen Victoria
ProQuest's
Peter Tribble took us through how ProQuest builds and uses Solaris
Zones to develop and deploy services to its customers with particular
reference to a very Royal project, which involved the on-line publishing
of Queen Victoria's Journals at
http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org.
Slides: Peter Tribble : How Zones served Queen Victoria
