On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Rich Smrcina <rsmrc...@wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Andrew Wiley wrote: > >> Well, this is a high school computer science course, so we don't have >> much budget and, quite frankly, we aren't a priority in... anything. >> >> However, the machine I'm investigating is being offered by a local >> business that's decommissioning it, and I can ask if they plan to >> include VM. >> Assuming they do, could the machine be useful? It wouldn't be used >> under high load; it would be hosting student projects. >> >> Andrew >> >> >> I'm pretty certain that the terms & conditions of the license indicate > that the software is not transferable with the hardware. > > If you could get z/VM it would certainly be useful, but somewhat dated > (by several releases now, at least 4). > > Where are you located? We're in Texas, in a town called Friendswood between Houston and Galveston. And... if that's the case, I guess there isn't much I can do. Oh well. We're doing fine with our current system of running linux on older desktops, but when this offer came up, I decided to investigate it. It's quite likely that we're going to have a lot more projects in the future (the College Board has officially removed the second year computer science advanced placement test, so our second year course is going to get a lot more interesting), and it occurred to me that putting group projects that needed a server on separate VM's would save headaches and be educational, but it's not a huge deal. I'm not familiar with IBM's licenses, but I assume that if the license can't be transferred, it can't be sold either? Is there any way to get a license? Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
