Cross-posted to vse-l and ibmvm. Sorry for duplications.
I am saddened to announce that today I am shutting down the mainframe at Grede Foundries in Milwaukee, WI.
Grede was one of the Linux for S/390 poster children when the mainframe port was first available around Christmas, 1999 from Marist. There were a couple attempts to eliminate the mainframe over the years, first with Peoplesoft; more recently with SAP. The SAP implementation had a fair potential of actually being moved to the mainframe (it was sourced remotely), but wasn't financially feasible. *NOT* due to hardware or software requirements, but due to the need to hire local SAP expertise.
I started at Grede in 1996 after their systems programmer moved on. I left in the fall of 2001 for VM Assist, and supported their VM, VSE and Linux systems in a consulting role, until today.
After formatting the data on the Shark, VM1 and VM2 will be shut down for the last time.
-- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO
