As a great follow-up from last months' meeting on Solaris Live Upgrade, Greg Ferguson of Sun will present "Solaris 10 - Just the Facts".

Built on the same rock solid foundation of earlier versions, Solaris 10 Operating System delivers the OS for tomorrow's data center today. It provides breakthrough functionality for highest availability, optimal utilization, industry-leading performance, unparalleled security and platform choice.

Some of the features to be reviewed:

    * N1 Grid Containers ( aka Zones )
    * Dynamic Tracing ( aka Dtrace )
    * Predictive Self Healing
    * Platform Support
    * Process Rights Management
    * Solaris Release Model ( aka Solaris Express )
    * Solaris Volume Manager

Greg Ferguson of Sun will be our presenter for our June meeting. Greg is a Systems Engineer and has worked for Sun for 5 years, mostly supporting major government installations as well as commercial named accounts in the Washington, DC, New York and Charlotte NC areas. Greg specializes in high end systems, networking and operating system support. Greg is currently focused on operating systems and related software technologies including N1. Greg also has a very diverse background in various flavors of Unix as well as numerous programming and scripting languages. Prior to Sun, Greg worked as an independent consultant for several years and was also a lead systems administrator for all academic Unix systems at a major University.

The Sun user community in Richmond is growing, and you are an important part of it! We look forward to your participation in the User's Group and are confident that you will find it technically enriching. Bring an associate. Just RSVP below.

LOCATION: Genworth Financial, formerly GE Financial Assurance, in the GFA building (6630 West Broad St.) on the sixth floor (GEFA U). Genworth Financial is located on West Broad Street in the Brookfield Office Park. After turning at the light on Broad Street and entering the Brookfield Complex...you should stay in the left lane and turn left at the stop sign. Follow the road around past the Sheraton to the 6630 building toward the back of the campus. Turn left for Visitor Parking. Additional parking is located on the far side of the building as well. Please enter at the front main entrance.

For directions to 6630 West Broad St. go to the following URL:
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/ddResults.py?Pyt=Tmap&tarname=&tardesc=&tarhash=&taraddr=6630+West+Broad+St&tarcsz=Richmond,+VA+23230-1702&newtcountry=us&newcountry=us&doit=1

RSVP: Please send an email RSVP at RSVP@RichmondSparc.org. You can also RSVP via the web site. We need to have a list of attendees for the Security Guards at GE Financial Assurance. THANKS!

For additional information about the Richmond SPARC Users Group, please visit http://www.RichmondSparc.org/. We hope to see you there!