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=== Talk One - Miguel Trembley ===
Though Miguel talked about the history of the software he works on, the main point I took from his talk was the position of the Federal Government on software usage. Miguel explained that the Federal Government takes a 'balanced approach' to the software it uses. Which I understand as "we use what is the most practical for us." (I feel skeptical of that because of [http://cdneducation.blogspot.com/2007/10/so-is-microsoft-dictating-what-is-used.html education scandles]). Though I feel skeptical of the government about all things most of the time, METRo is a proof that there is a push towards the open source model in our Canadian Politics.
=== Talk Two - Ross Chevalier ===
Ross is a spokesman for Nortell and spoke about XEN Virtualization. Ross presented to me the idea that virtualization can save business a LARGE amount of money, by allowing a company to harvest all the CPU cycles they possibly can.
''warning, this little use case is my position, and not necessarily Ross' this is how I understood things...''
XEN is a very large project, and I assume hundreds of developers have contributed to various internal projects contained within its boundaries. Ross explained how Novell was working hand in hand with Microsoft to provide XEN Linux->Windows solutions.
=== Comparison=== Miguel seems to be the only person getting paid to work on METRo
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