Conferences For Unix Admins?

Highlander asks: "As a member of my company's IT Team I have the opportunity to petition to go to conferences in North America and be sponsored by my employer. Those OTHER admins have their Tech Net's and their Microsoft Expo's; but what does a lonely Solaris/Linux admin have to choose from? If you had to find a conference to attend on someone else's buck, which one would you choose?"

Comdex

[Beowulf_Boy]

What about Comdex? Or is that not considered a conference?
Either way, it would be cool to go!

what you like to do?

[johnnycal]

I would say that there are tons of conferences out there but generally speaking the SAGE conference [usenix.org] is where you can network with some really cool people (and its in New Orleans ).

If you are into security then there is a MIS training institute [misti.com] that gives pretty good classes.

If you want free gizmos and gadgets then LinuxWorldExpo [linuxworldexpo.com] is hard to beat.

I've been to the orielly conference [oreilly.com] this year and that was pretty decent especially if its not your money. ( I got the hook up for 3 free books !!!! )

I would suggest if you go to any conferences and get a workshop or session or what ever people call them make sure to get "hands-on" (or the equivalent) type of class because it sticks with you a whole lot better.

--john

USENIX

[lw54]

I'd highly recommend the USENIX conferences [usenix.org] and in particular the SAGE events [usenix.org].

They even have student programs [usenix.org] to help us kids get through school.