LISA...how good

[ptsg-austin.sps.mot.com">borowicz]

John I-Chung Wang wrote:
>       I have a tentative agreement with my boss to attend LISA VIII in
>San Diego provided that I first make certain that it won't be a waste of
>time. Does anyone have any opinions about these conferences? How are the
>tutorials structured? How useful has it been? or even stories of shear
>boredom would be welcomed.

John,

	I would add to what Dave said so well. I pushed real 
hard to go this year after missing last year. If you take
SysAdmin seriously or even consider it a career then LISA is
a must. I would be surprised at anyone who performs Unix 
SysAdmin who attends LISA would come away saying it was a
waste of time.

	I think that in Unix you periodically need to evaluate
how you do things IE: NFS; NIS; Backups etc. Attending LISA
provides you with LOTS of exposure to other peoples way of doing
things. This is both refreshing and inspiring to me. 

	LISA is the one professional conference dedicated to 
System Administration. It is well run and well attended. If
you spend any time on SysAdmin the decision to go should be
a no brainer.

No I'm not a Usenix executive. :-)

later


Robert K. Borowicz - CAD Systems Administrator
borowiczptsg-austin.sps.mot.com
Motorola Corportation Inc.
Austin, Texas USA