Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-07 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Yup, some companies -- some legal departments -- make the profiling process weirdly adversarial, if they even allow it to begin. There's no reason for that, though, since the goal is simply to let companies brag about their technological brilliance. And to let IBM and other vendors involved

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-07 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Regarding z/Journal and Mainframe Executive being separate from IBM, absolutely. Regarding the IBM magazine, also somewhat right: it's produced/distributed by an external company, though with much editorial input from IBM. But being a captive publication, articles are too often more product

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2010-04-05 Thread Len Diegel
Gabe, you know how much I hate getting pulled into these discussions. :-) First, I totally agree that both the zJournal and IBM's S.M. provide a lot of information and support for the mainframe. I also appreciate how difficult it is to get customers to discuss their efforts due to

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gabe Goldberg Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 11:07 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: acm/vmware But it's generally tough recruiting profile subjects, even though the process isn't burdensome or threatening. Sites can give

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-05 Thread Howard Rifkind
mainframes are few and far between.   However, after MVMUG IBM presentations, some how it still gives me hope that z/VM will survive well into the future in one form or another. --- On Mon, 4/5/10, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com wrote: From: Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com Subject: Re: acm/vmware

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-04 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Right. Mainframe stories (profiles, business cases, success stories, white papers, they have many names) appear in such places as z/Journal (with a technical slant), Mainframe Executive (aimed at management), IBM's Web site, IBM's Systems Magazine (Mainframe Edition), and other industry

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: There has been one:  Back in 2007-2008, there was The Grail from IBM's Stop Talking, Start Doing campaign.  (Not to be confused with a 2004 IBM infrastructure ad of the same name.) :-)

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-02 Thread Howard Rifkind
Subject: acm/vmware To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 11:07 AM The listserv sent me a message my post didn't go out, so try again. If you go to conferences such as CMG (Computer Management Group), that has been a mainframe organization (meaning MVS or z/OS) since it started

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-02 Thread Edward M Martin
Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: acm/vmware Well the simple reason you see VMware all over the place is because there are 10-100 times or more PC type computers and IBM

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-02 Thread Mike Walter
z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: acm/vmware Yep, and remember the commercials about how someone ?stole? the servers, and it turned out they were all together on the IBM Blade servers. You do not see any commercials for any IBM z

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2010-04-02 Thread Bruce Hayden
True.. and I've seen the original mainframe version many times. But, what I find on YouTube right now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbn_MUfTG0E) is a version for the IBM virtualization engine and blade center. To my eye, the whole commercial is exactly the same as the original except for the

Re: acm/vmware

2010-04-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/02/2010 at 11:04 EDT, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Yep, and remember the commercials about how someone ?stole? the servers, and it turned out they were all together on the IBM Blade servers. You do not see any commercials for any IBM z boxes or z software.

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2010-03-31 Thread Barton Robinson
The listserv sent me a message my post didn't go out, so try again. If you go to conferences such as CMG (Computer Management Group), that has been a mainframe organization (meaning MVS or z/OS) since it started, our VM has never been represented, but VMWare now has many sessions. It's