[lug] SuSE is happy about Alan Robertson

[Andrew Diederich]

I figure Alan won't post this, so here's an announcement about
their "prominent Linux developers."

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Andrew

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SuSE Linux Showcases Well-known Linux Experts At LinuxWorld Expo

CTO Dirk Hohndel and SuSE's Team of Industry Experts to Demonstrate
Technical Superiority of Newly Released SuSE 7.1 and New Open Source
Directives

New York, NY - January 29, 2001 - Today, SuSE Linux, the international
technology leader and solutions provider in open source operating system
(OS)
software, announced the availability of several key developers at the SuSE
booth during LinuxWorld Expo in New York. In addition to CTO Dirk Hohndel's
keynote address on Friday, Feb. 2nd, the team of SuSE experts at the show
includes:

    - Alan Robertson, architect of Heartbeat, STONITH, and other
high-availability software for Linux
    - Anas Nashif, expert in supercomputing cluster technology on Linux,
developer of the beowulf clustering materials for SuSE 7.1
    - Andrea Arcangeli, Linux kernel developer, developed the big memory
patch
for the 2.4 kernel, networking

These SuSE staff members are available during the show at the SuSE booth,
#1539. 

"Mr. Robertson, Mr. Nashif, and Ms. Arcangeli are well known in the Linux
community and their contributions to Open Source are an integral part of the
success of Linux," commented Volker Wiegand, President of SuSE Inc.  

The recent release of SuSE Linux 7.1, which includes the newly released
Kernel
2.4, is particularly noteworthy with Mr. Nashif and Mr. Arcangeli playing
important roles in its development. In addition to being the primary
architect
of effective and stable high-availability software such as Heartbeat, Mr.
Robertson is working on the project to create a version of SGI's FailSafe
for
Linux.

Other SuSE staff members at the show who are also prominent Linux developers
include Keith Packard, XFree86 Project, Kurt Granroth,
Developer/Evangelist/KDE
Component Technologies, and Waldo Bastian, KDE Core Developer, all of whom
are
also speaking at LWE. 

The SuSE booth is located in position 1539 at the Jacob Javitz Convention
Center and the SuSE team members are available to the media, developer
community, and the general public throughout the show.




About SuSE

SuSE Linux is the international technology leader and solutions provider in
Open Source operating system (OS) software. SuSE's unique expertise in Linux
and its largest development team worldwide dedicated to Open Source software
has contributed to the recognition of SuSE as the most complete Linux
solution
available today.

SuSE Linux AG, headquartered in Germany, and SuSE Inc., based in Oakland,
CA,
are privately held companies focused entirely on supporting the Linux
community
and Open Source development. With a workforce of more than 500 people
worldwide, SuSE has offices throughout Europe, Latin America and in the US.
More information please see www.suse.com.

SuSE is a registered trademark of SuSE Linux AG. Linux is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the
property of their respective owners.

Contact:

Xenia von Wedel
The Terpin Group
xvonwedel at terpin.com
(650) 344-4944

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