Re: Moving on
sorry to hear your company is moving away for linux on system z. Not a good thing. Thank you for your contributions and you will be missed. David Kreuter From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Mark Wheeler Sent: Sat 1/3/2009 11:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Moving on Greetings all, After a near-nine year run (since downloading the Marist distro back in April(?) 2000), 3M shut down the last two IFLs last week. At one time we had over 75 virtual servers running, including numerous DB2Connect servers, five TSM servers, the reverse proxy servers front-ending all digital media content on 3M.com, WebSphere development servers, and various "odds and ends"-type low use servers. It was a blast while it lasted. I had the good fortune to be able to work with nearly all the cool technologies developed in recent z/VM releases - virtual switches (VLAN-aware and unaware), guest LANs, hipersockets (virtual and real), FCP (tape), and more. I have so many people to thank for all their hard work, from all the folks in development who brought this marvelous technology to us, to so many of you contributing to this list day-in and day-out, and especially to all those who have helped me personally with zLinux issues over the years. I'll be dropping into lurk mode on this list for now, but hopefully you'll continue to see me from time to time on VMESA-L, IBM-MAIN, and others. Very best regards, Mark Wheeler IT Infrastructure, 3M Center B224-4N-20, St Paul MN 55144 Tel: (651) 733-4355, Fax: (651) 736-7689 mlwheeler at mmm.com mwheelermn at hotmail.com -- "I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go." Rachel Joy Scott -- 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 -- 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
Re: Moving on
> Gear, Steven wrote:> > Mark,> >> > What did they which to?> >> >> > and why?> > > Cheers> John Lack of executive sponsorship, and all that flows from that. Anyone who has heard Nationwide's "From Woe to Whoa!" presentation, or Marcy Cortes' Wells Fargo story recognize the pattern. They had their moments when they stared into the abyss, but enlightened management pulled them out. In short, that didn't happen here. Best regards, Mark _ Send e-mail anywhere. No map, no compass. http://windowslive.com/oneline/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_anywhere_122008 -- 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
Re: Moving on
You know everytime I hear of this on one of my forums it saddens me. I feel like we are a family and I enjoy talking..or in my case listening, to each of you daily. Mark, I hope they keep you in some capacity beacause of your vast knowledge. What the new, read pc metality, doesn't understand is we came up wiring boards, and improvising under harsh situations and we can do anything with anything. We are not "plug and play" . Good Luck Mace --- On Sat, 1/3/09, Mark Wheeler wrote: > From: Mark Wheeler > Subject: Moving on > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 11:16 PM > Greetings all, > > After a near-nine year run (since downloading the Marist > distro back in > April(?) 2000), 3M shut down the last two IFLs last week. > At one time we > had over 75 virtual servers running, including numerous > DB2Connect servers, > five TSM servers, the reverse proxy servers front-ending > all digital media > content on 3M.com, WebSphere development servers, and > various "odds and > ends"-type low use servers. > > It was a blast while it lasted. I had the good fortune to > be able to work > with nearly all the cool technologies developed in recent > z/VM releases - > virtual switches (VLAN-aware and unaware), guest LANs, > hipersockets > (virtual and real), FCP (tape), and more. > > I have so many people to thank for all their hard work, > from all the folks > in development who brought this marvelous technology to us, > to so many of > you contributing to this list day-in and day-out, and > especially to all > those who have helped me personally with zLinux issues over > the years. > > I'll be dropping into lurk mode on this list for now, > but hopefully you'll > continue to see me from time to time on VMESA-L, IBM-MAIN, > and others. > > Very best regards, > > Mark Wheeler > IT Infrastructure, 3M Center B224-4N-20, St Paul MN 55144 > Tel: (651) 733-4355, Fax: (651) 736-7689 > mlwheeler at mmm.com > mwheelermn at hotmail.com > -- > "I have this theory that if one person can go out of > their way to show > compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same. > People will > never know how far a little kindness can go." Rachel > Joy Scott > > -- > 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 -- 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
Re: Moving on
Gear, Steven wrote: Mark, What did they which to? and why? -- Cheers John -- spambait 1...@coco.merseine.nu z1...@coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) -- 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
