Sad day for Irish Technical Community

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of David Houston. Dave was the first person I made contact with in Dublin when I made the decision to move over from Canada. We had a link in our support of SBS and that lead to a mutual respect. I ran a user group back in Canada and I respect the time and dedication it tales to run a group like SBS Ireland as Dave had for a number of years.He was a fun and interesting guy with a deep desire to be involved in the technical community here in Dublin and make others better. I was fortunate enough to attend TechEd EMEA with Dave in 2009 and had a chance to spend time with Dave and get to know him and as a result will greatly miss him in the community and in general.

                                                                                         David Houston

cheers

 

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 31, 2010
  Will Sorry to hear of the passing of a friend.  He sounds like he had a great amount of technical passion.  I imagine through his friends and those like you, he will live on in ways he never imagined. A toast to him.   May he be in Heaven a full hour before the Devil knows he's dead. ;) (Hope I got that right) Sean

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2010
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• Anonymous
  June 01, 2010
  Dave was a fantastic professional, peer, and friend. He, like many in the community, showed the importance of sticking with your passions no matter what got in the way and he will be missed by everyone who connected with him. Thanks for this post and showing readers who he was beyond the technology.

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2010
  I had the pleasure of working closely with David over the past 5 or 6 years. His expert knowledge and willingness to never give up on any challenge both physical and technical was amazing! His loss is felt deeply amounts his friends and colleagues, amongst whom I’m proud to be counted. His contribution to the SBS community was far reaching and the many emails of shock at his passing are a credit to how much he was liked.

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2010
  I dealt with David occasionally over the last couple of years or so and all I's like to say is what a lovely decent easy going gentleman he was to work with always. My sincere condolences to his family and friends at this difficult time.  

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2010
  Dave not only ran the Ireland SBS group, but he was also very instrumental in the ramp up of the International SBSgroupLeads leaders group. A group of leaders all running SBS IT Peer groups from around the world. He will be missed.

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2010
  David was a remarkably friendly, witty, hard working and knowledgable guy, and I count myself lucky to have had the chance to get to know him over the last few years. He will be sorely missed, and my condolances to his family and colleagues.

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2010
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• Anonymous
  June 03, 2010
  I was shocked and saddened to hear of Daves's sudden passing. My heartfelt condolences to his family. I met him through Microsoft and the SBS group and he was a really nice guy. Always helpfull and very knowledeable and downright friendly. We shared a few laughs along the way and his enthusiasm for his work was always infectious. He will be missed in so many ways.

• Anonymous
  June 04, 2010
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• Anonymous
  June 06, 2010
  David always suprised me with his willingness to help others,he always wanted to share his knowledge and to help other IT pro's he really embodied comminity and was always ready to help, David you will be missed. Mark