>From beautiful, sunny and very warm San Francisco! Linux on zSeries has a large presence at this event. In the IBM booth we have a z990 running lots of Linux images (cloning exercise). We are also hosting lots of virtual Linux servers for other booths at the show. The z990 is also part of a Linux grid running a financial analysis application using DataSynapse's grid management software. The z990 is getting lots of oohs and ahs. CA has good size booth with a central focus of managing Linux on VM. Linuxcare is hosting a separate booth (see http://www.linuxonzseriesatwork.com/ ) where several vendors (including IBM products such as z/VM) are being shown running on the z990. Of course SuSE and Red Hat have booths with zSeries and IBM partners Mainline and Denver Solutions Group (Sytek Services) are prominent.
At the show today, Linuxcare announced Version 2 of the Levanta provisioning solution. http://www.linuxcare.com/products/index.epl Also today, Veritas has now made available their Foundation Suite for Red Hat Linux for S/390. SuSE support will be available before YE2003. http://www.veritas.com/news/press/PressReleaseDetail.jhtml?NewsId=60433 I will go around the show tomorrow when I get a few free moments, and will post here a summary of all the vendors showing Linux products. PS: While the z990 will not be at SHARE (not enough time to get the machine across country!), we will have a z990 cut open (part hardware, part plexiglass) so you will actually see the insides of this machine! Regards, Jim
