Samba Team Leader to Add Support Prowess, Development
Expertise
May 13, 1999 — Linuxcare, Inc., the leader in technical
support, consulting, education, and product certification for
Linux, announced today that it had named Open Source developer
Andrew Tridgell to the position of Senior Researcher, Open Source
Development. Tridgell is the original author and current team
leader for the Samba software package, which provides a complete
replacement for the networking services included in Windows NT,
OS/2 Warp, Sun NFS, or Novell NetWare servers.
“Samba is a virtually ubiquitous Open Source application,
depended upon by almost every Linuxcare customer,” said David
Sifry, Linuxcare Chief Technical Officer. “We are extremely pleased
that Andrew has agreed to join the Linuxcare team. His appointment
will only strengthen the Samba development effort, something we
consider absolutely strategic, both for us and the Open Source
community at large.”
In addition to continuing to serve as Samba team leader,
Tridgell’s responsibilities at Linuxcare will include educational
activities, Open Source application development, and technical
support work on Samba, Jitterbug, rsync, and other applications in
his areas of expertise. Tridgell will also remain a visiting fellow
at Australian National University and will retain his links to the
academic community, particularly in the area of high-performance
computing.
“By joining Linuxcare, I have a marvelous opportunity to work
full-time in the Open Source community from within a company that
is committed to Open Source development,” Tridgell said. “I believe
that the success of the commercial support infrastructure that
Linuxcare is developing is vitally important to the future of Linux
and Open Source in the enterprise.”
About Andrew Tridgell
Prior to joining Linuxcare, Andrew Tridgell held a full-time
appointment as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of
Computer Science at Australian National University in Canberra. His
research interests include speech recognition, hidden Markov
models, recurrent neural networks, parallel sorting and searching,
parallel file systems, parallel operating systems, kernel threads,
signals and networking. His “spare time,” he has written, “is spent
working on various bits of free software.”
About Samba
Samba provides seamless Unix file and print services to Windows and
other desktops running the SMB (NetBIOS) network protocol.
Benchmark tests conducted by the trade press have shown Samba to
consistently outperform Microsoft Windows NT and Novell NetWare in
providing core network services to Windows clients. More
information on Samba is available at http://www.samba.org/
About Linuxcare, Inc.
Linuxcare, Inc. is the first company to provide a complete solution
for Linux technical support, consulting, education and product
certification for Global 1000 companies. Linuxcare supports all
major distributions of Linux on all major platforms, offering a
variety of programs including 24×7 enterprise-class telephone
support. The company hosts www.linuxcare.com, the world’s largest
technical-support resource for Linux. Founded in 1998, Linuxcare is
headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. The company can be reached
at 888-LIN-GURU (888-546-4878) and at www.linuxcare.com.