Wayne, It is sad to hear another great University and one of the First to embrace VM lose their way like this ;-)
keep in touch and here is hoping you can still go to SHARE specially in Boston in August. Bill Munson Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. 525 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 201-418-7588 President MVMUA http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/BillMunson Wayne Smith <w...@maine.edu> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 01/04/2010 11:38 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Moving on: The University of Maine (System) shuts down mainframe Hi all, It's been 7 years in the making, or tearing down. We shutdown our mainframe December 31. We ran VM for an incredible 38.5 years and it was a blast, especially at SHARE and the various incarnations of this group! Gerry Dube has retired (mostly), though not before helping all Maine K-12 schools and libraries be very well connected to the internet. Kerry Anderson leads our e-mail, ID management, DNS and several other areas, and of course has built world-class tools to integrate and manage the systems. My hats include Listserv postmaster, Oracle DBA, and backup and recovery. We're just now implementing a new D2D2D system (Quantum & NetBackup). Our administrative systems have moved to PeopleSoft on Sun Solaris SPARC machines, with nearly all of the rest of our shop on Linux Intel machines. In an odd twist (of cruelty), we've retrained one of our mainframe operators to handle our Windows systems work. ;-) Happy New Year to all! Cheers, Wayne Wayne T Smith -- w...@maine.edu Systems and Operations Group, ITS, UMS *************************** IMPORTANT NOTE*****************************-- The opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and not necessarily those of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates ("BBH"). There is no guarantee that this message is either private or confidential, and it may have been altered by unauthorized sources without your or our knowledge. Nothing in the message is capable or intended to create any legally binding obligations on either party and it is not intended to provide legal advice. BBH accepts no responsibility for loss or damage from its use, including damage from virus. ********************************************************************************
