[olug] Too Cool!

[Jonathan Warren]

Aix will soon be linux though.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Quinn Coldiron wrote:
> That was me.  
> 
> It was while I was the IT Dept. Mgr for the University Press.  I
> converted the entire system to Linux (replacing NT and Novell).  It was
> a great job, except they couldn't pay as well as the private sector.  I
> originally wrote it for the international university press association's
> annual IT meeting where I presented on the topic.  I then put it online
> and shared it on RedHat's listserv where it exploded.  I even was
> approached by McMillan and O'Reilly to convert it into a 500 page book. 
> It was even reposted along with a short interview I did in CFO magazine.
> 
> Poor judgment and planning on my part screwed up the book deal.  Oh
> well...live and learn.  It has earned me many speaking engagements and I
> met a great many people in Linux (including many RedHat executives who
> had read the paper).  I was even invited to speak at Comdex but my new
> work schedule with the hospital didn't allow for that.
> 
> Those were the days :-)  Now I'm growing Linux at the hospital...  It's
> mainly AIX here, though.  We also have a new manager that I think is on
> MS's pay-role.  I think the guy's Bill Gate's long lost cousin.  Makes
> for fun discussion sessions with our director, though :-)
> 
> Quinn
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:10, Carl Lundstedt wrote:
> > 
> > THAT WAS YOU?  Hlug linked to that story for a long time, knowing only
> > that the author was from UNL.  I don't know if we still have that linked
> > to somewhere or not....hmmmmm
> > 
> > Carl Lundstedt
> > UNL
> > 
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> 
> You don't "install" web pages; you simply visit them.
> Why should applications be any different?
> 
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> Quinn P. Coldiron
> Cerner Technical Coordinator
> Nebraska Methodist Hospital
> 402-354-1619
> qcoldir at nmhs.org
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