Hi all,
Just a reminder that the regular PLUG seminar is coming up next
Tuesday, the 13th of November 2007. This month we have Paul Antoine
talking about the development of UNIX (and Linux) in Australia.
Title: "UNIX In Australia"
When: Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
Where: 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont
Presenter: Paul Antoine
To blatantly plagiarise Paul:
i) Australia was the first country outside the US to have Unix source code
ii) Wollongong University was the first to port Unix to a non-DEC
architecture (Perkin-Elmer)
iii) A good deal of the work on a VM-enabled kernel was the result of
work at the University of NSW
iv) UNSW had the first *stable* VM-enabled kernel, where stable is
defined as running for 24 hours without crashing :-)
v) University of Sydney developed the first Fair Share scheduler to
allow 100 staff and students to use a single VAX 11/780 (1MIP... yes
ONE MIP)
Paul will be talking on how these and other achievements came about,
as well has his involvement in a number of Australian IT startups.
Paul Antoine's professional career spans 23 years. He has more than 12
years of Board-level experience both in Australia and the US and has
been a lead investor in several startup companies.
In 1993 Paul was appointed CEO of Softway (now Aurema), a systems
software company specializing in enterprise resource management within
operating systems, where he completed licensing of their Share II
resource management product to companies such as Fujitsu, SGI,
Siemens-Nixdorf, and Sun Microsystems. The Share II technology was the
first successful commercialisation of software out of Sydney
University, and the Sun Microsystems licensing deal the largest dollar
value licensing of software in Australia's IT industry history.
Softway's network security division quickly become a preferred
supplier of network security systems and services to the Australian
Federal Government and achieved $1M in sales in the first year of its
operation.
Paul has also invested and participated in other IT startups,
including Bullant Pty Ltd, 5th Finger Pty Ltd (Australia's first SMS
marketing company) and BePrivate (anti-spam) in Australia and the US.
We will be ordering pizza for consumption when the talk is over, and
possibly adjourning to a nearby pub for general discussion and drinks
after the presentation. A gold-coin donation will be requested to
cover the costs of the pizza.
As usual, visitors and friends are most welcome.
Information (including a map to the venue) is also available on the
PLUG website:
http://www.plug.org.au/events/seminar/.
See you there!
-Patrick
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