It's not your grandfather's Sun. Sun's Opteron based servers are lightening fast and easy on the budget.

Our speaker, Ray Voight, will discuss:
* Sun's OS strategy for Opteron
* Advantages of Opteron over Xeon
* Advantages of Opteron over Itanium
* Advantages of Sun's Opteron vs. HP's or IBM's
* Where Opteron fits vs. SPARC
* Performance

Since joining Sun Microsystems in 1992, Ray Voight has served in a number os key positions within the Commercial and Federal sales organizations. Today, Ray is a Solution Architect with the x86 Volume Products Sub-practice of the Desktop and Mobility group within Sun's Client Services Organization.

Ray has over Fifteen year experience in selling, architecting, installing, and managing solutions to fulfill customers' business requirements. His areas of specialization include storage, clusters, project management, data center process and procedures, and architecting infrastructure solutions.

Ray was awarded his Masters in Engineering from the University of Virginia, and his Bachelor's of Science In Engineering Science from The University of Tennessee.

LOCATION: Genworth Financial, formerly GE Financial Assurance, in Building 4 (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 Building 4 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!