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Are any of the IBM OS,s trade marked?
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Steele, Phil stee...@tabcorp.com.au
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Some of this vast proliferation of servers was indeed (in the case of the
vaguely cluey
http://www.ibm.com/legal/us/en/copytrade.shtml
On Wednesday, 03/31/2010 at 11:24 EDT, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com
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Are any of the IBM OS,s trade marked?
VM/ESA, z/VM, z/OS, z/VSE, and OS/390 are all registered trademarks of IBM
(at least in the US). As Carol posted,
http://www.ibm.com/legal/us/en/copytrade.shtml (I include z/VSE
Correction: *publicizing* the office productivity suite. Amoco
(IIRC) gets the invention prize for that little gem.
To be correct, PROFS was developed as by IBM Dallas for Amoco,
then release as a PRPQ, then as a product.
Jim
What irks me even mor is the audasity of the VMware folks to steal the 'VM'
part of the name. If they wanted to be different couldn't they have used VS?
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Jim Elliott jelli...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.comwrote:
Correction: *publicizing* the office productivity suite.
I seem to remember, around 1981, seeing a demonstration of
an experimental PROFS at Yorktown Heights. IBM had just
opened the Special Planned Programs facility in Tampa to
get back into the timeshare market and we were considering
their PROFS as our offering. I even had a copy of PROFS
source
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote:
You mean VMware isn't a clothing line??
I sometimes spell it VMwear. And like you, Jim - I'm quick to correct
anyone who thinks about using just 'VM' to refer to their little upstart
virtualization product.
Oh,
Makes me remember a small support contract had to be created for a customer
of mine. My boss forwarded some quickly written tasks to perform to an
admin to put it in a contract.
This admin carefully changed every occurance of VM by the official term
VMware :-)
Since then I often respond just
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Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have
been a member since 1970) made the following award:
VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for
bringing virtualization technology to modern computing
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Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have
been a member since 1970) made the following award:
VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for
bringing virtualization
savings. So the bean counters can't show cost reductions, so they
don't like it
utterly blinkered
Dave.
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From: Barton Robinson bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Dave Wade g4...@dpwade.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Whilst VMWare is fun to manage, it needs managing and also capacity planning
and opportunities(?), I guess, based on a background in IBM VM Perf
and CapPlan, I've been given the opportunity(?) to perform VMWare
(even
for bean counters) as one might imagine. Those same bean counters will be
the first ones to ask Why not 1 box instead of 50? just like they asked
Why not 50 boxes instead of 500?. Wouldn't that be preferable to an ACM
award?
--. .- .-. -.--
Gary Dennis
Mantissa Corporation
0 ... living
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In my humble opinion the main reason VMWare (an to a lesser extent
HyperV)
is popular at present is because it allows bean counters to
demonstrate
huge
instant savings. Where
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Subject: Re: ACM award - they deserve it
In my humble opinion the main reason VMWare
Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have been a member
since 1970) made the following award:
VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for bringing virtualization
technology to modern computing environments, spurring a shift to virtual-machine
architectures, and
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ACM award
Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have been a
member
since 1970) made the following award:
VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for bringing
virtualization
technology to modern computing environments, spurring
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sigh
I can understand modern computing organizations being ignorant of
historical modern computing environments such as z/VM -- but the ACM?
Perhaps their selection committee was comprised
On Tuesday, 03/30/2010 at 06:28 EDT, Michael Harding/Oakland/i...@ibmus
wrote:
You caught the hedge too. z/VM - or any mainframe OS - is probably
considered
classic as opposed to modern.
But truly modern today would be hand-helds, phones or all-pervasive
(built
into the surroundings),
Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have
been a member since 1970) made the following award:
VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for
bringing virtualization technology to modern computing
environments, spurring a shift to virtual-machine
architectures,
You mean VMware isn't a clothing line??
I sometimes spell it VMwear. And like you, Jim - I'm quick to correct
anyone who thinks about using just 'VM' to refer to their little upstart
virtualization product.
Nothing against VMware itself - they've raised the bar in some ways for some
things in
On 3/30/10 5:50 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote:
I can understand modern computing organizations being ignorant of
historical modern computing environments such as z/VM -- but the ACM?
Doesn't surprise me at all. The ACM has gotten progressively more myopic wrt
to doing their
On 3/30/10 5:42 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote:
Aside from the run multiple OSes on the desktop part, shouldn't we be
insulted?
Oh, it gets better. Check this out (from the press release):
Software System Award (sic) honors an institution or individual(s)
recognized for developing a
On 3/30/10 10:34 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote:
Talk about someone that ought to know better Although I guess the out is
that it's a yearly award and the commercial acceptance clause is slick
enough to slide by. Then again, *how* many copies of PROFS were there? I
guess IBM
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