> -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:21 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Moving On > > This month, I will be leaving Nationwide Insurance and taking up work > with Velocity Software. > > When I interviewed at Nationwide in late 2005, Paul Henry (then > director over the mainframe guys) put it this way [insert thick > Bostonian accent here] - "We're serious about virtualization.". And > so it is. Nationwide is a heavy user of z/VM and Linux on System z, > then as now doing very cool stuff with V12N. > > Working with Rick Barlow and James Vincent has been the most rewarding > part of the job. Those of you know know them by their reputations > (through the VM and zLinux community and/or through SHARE) can only > imagine what was my reality over the past four and one half years. And > the team around us (whom most of you do not know) is phenominal: the > most committed group I have thus far been privileged to be a part of. > I will miss them. > > But now the time has come for me to go back to the development side of > this game, supporting the software that makes virtualization actually > work. If you can't measure it ... well, you know. So I am elated > that on the 20th I'll start with Velocity, a company I have always > respected with products of renown. I am stoked! > > -- R; <>< >
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