Red Hat Solutions for System z

Current & Future State of Linux on System z Shawn D. Wells (sdw@redhat.com) (+1) 443 534 0130

OSS In Universities ● ● ● ● ● Carnegie Mellon folds Open Source Into New Degree Offering http://www.iosn.net/foss/news/carnegiemellonfoldsopensourceintonewdeg NC State University – Leader in OSS education and research. Open Source Community page (https://opensource.ncsu.edu/) Oregon State University Has a Course in Open Source Development and an Open Source Education Lab ( http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/419/) Seneca College Organizes Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium, which has grown into a twoday event attracting participants from across North America. http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College Running “The Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Project” (http://www.hfoss.org/)

Red Hat OSU Goals To enable thousands of colleges and universities around the world to teach open source principles, programming and system administration to hundreds of thousands of students To create communities of participating schools, instructors, students paired OSS community to learn from each other, to develop open source curricula and to contribute to OSS projects To make available high quality Red Hat courseware and a scalable, open platform for hosting and managing OSS courses To make the combined program self-funding, but not to maximize profitability for Red Hat

What We Believe Schools Want ● ● ● ● ● ● High quality course materials and labs Accreditations/certifications that will make their students marketable upon graduation Curricula that will attract students to their school Opportunities for communities to share ideas with other educators and in our case with the OSS community Access to potential corporate and government grants The program to be either free or heavily subsidized

Overview of Red Hat Training ● ● ● ● ● ● Red Hat training and certification is a $50M annual business 32,000 RHCEs and 23,000 RHCTs spread across 150 countries Open enrollment schedule in 40+ countries Comprehensive Linux and JBoss curricula of 30+ courses, most are 4 day Recognized leader in performance based certification testing Designated by IDC in leader quadrant in December 2007, ranked ahead of M$ and many others

OSU Program Options ● Red Hat Open Source University (OSU) – Free program for both students and schools – Includes “entry level RHCT and while include basic Java and JBoss administration – Open source courses/curricula developed by participating schools – – Does not include exams or instructor training ● Red Hat Academy (OSU plus): – Expanded curriculum: RHCE + more JBoss + Linux Dev – Includes instructor training (2) – Includes exam vouchers, student seats in RHA, one academic subscription RHEL, and academic desktop subscription – Customer support by phone – Sample NA price structure: Limited support – ● 20 student seats $4694 or ● 50 student seats $9488 Value of a 20 student program ● Approx. $22,000

Performance Based Testing ● ● Each course has 1012 workbooks and each workbook contains a variety of lessons, each followed by livesystem lab tests which provide both student and teacher with a definitive measurement of the student’s competency before proceeding to the next workbook. Such competency measurements accompany traditional cognitive pre-tests, exercises, and final exams to measure overall curriculum knowledge and understanding. With each course designed for demonstrating competency throughout the instruction, students are provided the best Linux education and preparation possible.

Curriculum Outline ● ● ● ● RHA 030 Red Hat Linux Computing Essentials Students will learn to be effective users of Linux systems, acquiring skills and understanding of command line functions, file systems, users and groups, bash shell, process management. RHA 130 Red Hat Linux Core System Administration - Students will learn to be effective administrators of Linux systems, mastering tasks such as hardware and device configuration, file system management, user administration, network configurations, kernel services. RHA 230 Red Hat Linux Network Applications - Students learn to deploy and administer the core networking services which have made Red Hat Enterprise Linux popular, including the Apache Web Server, the Samba File Server, BIND. RHA 250 Red Hat Linux Security Administration - Students learn to implement and administer basic security policies relating to user authentication (including PAM and NIS) and securing network applications using application level access control and kernel level firewalling (ipchains), SELinux, system monitoring, and implementing common encryption protocols including PKI…

Professional Certifications ● Endofclass assessment – All courses include an extensive series of exercises that can be used for grading. – ● Courses also include end-of-class exams Certification – The RHA materials prepare students for two Red Hat’s certification exams and become Red Hat Certified Technicians (RHCTs) or Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs). Two options: ● ● Red Hat Academies receive exam vouchers for students at more than 70% off the exam list price. These vouchers can be redeemed by the student by registering to attend any of the hundreds of the open enrollment sessions scheduled around the world. Red Hat Open Source University students are similarly eligible to sit for exams but would be responsible for paying their own exam fees