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Fwd: What would you like to see on 12 December?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Nov 28 16:24:27 2001
Message-ID: <Aw1JM89z0001EpiWtH@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:24:24 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
On December 12, Jeff Merriman is giving a talk to some bigwhigs at Sun
on OKI. I've been invited to give a talk to the same bigwhigs on
Athena. I accepted the inviation, and asked what they wanted to hear.
Enclosed is the reply.
Who would like to participate in this? It will be December 12 at 1:30 PM.
(I'm not exactly sure how long the talk will run.)
-wdc
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:54:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Casey Palowitch <Casey.Palowitch@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: What would you like to see on 12 December?
To: wdc@mit.edu
Cc: avelino.miguelez@east.sun.com, dennis.aylward@east.sun.com,
Casey.Palowitch@Sun.COM
Hi Bill,
I am glad you are proactively asking, thanks!
The new faces visiting on the 12th are my peers, that is, presales SE
managers from the rest of the US, whose direct reports are the Sun SEs, who,
like Avelino, cover higher-ed (and the rest of the edu market).
The names: Ismet Nesicolaci West
Mike Flanery South
Dennis Royalty Central
> My personal opinion is that the single most interesting aspect of Athena
> is that it took UNIX from timesharing hosts requiring one wizard per
> host and discovered the principles to rescale that computing on
> networked clients and servers with a single wizard per platform type,
> with a small crew of
> operators.
Right on the money. The primary reason I want to have them hear about
Athena is that as we all cover schools of various sizes, but many are
growing to
the size of MIT in their Sun installations, some may even be bigger, and thus
all of us have other customers facing the systems management issues that you
folks have been spending many many person/years thinking about, architecting,
and solving.
I would like these guys to come away from their visit with you with the
following, and not in any particular order. After each item is a percent of
time/effort that seems reasonable to spend:
1. An appreciation of the history of Athena at MIT, and the great things
that have come out of Athena over the years. 10%
2. Your success stories in managing large numbers of Suns across MIT
campus. 25%
3. Novel ways you have employed Sun technologies that other higher-ed
customers may be interested in knowing about. 15%
4. Current projects you are working on that other higher-ed customers
would benefit from hearing about and that you want to evangelize. %15
5. Most importantly, what Athena-created tools, products, architectures,
solutions we can take back and spread to our other customers to help
them. This
is where you can sell yourselves and your ideas. My peers and I will actively
spread your solutions into a broad meme-network. %45
As usual, we expect to get 110% from every meeting with you. :-)
We'd love to hear from a range of folks in your team as you think
appropriate, that way you don't have to do all the work...
PS-- It will probably benefit everyone to have a take-away folder or set
of documentation to take with us so that we a) don't have to take notes and b)
have all the names, urls, three-letter-acronyms, specs, and contact vectors to
share with others.
Hope this helps get you started,
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