I had thought that DKMS was going under Tivoli and being renamed... my error.
It started out Danish or Denmark Key Management ... I think. Contains a snippit of DKMS history via CV - http://www.linkedin.com/in/joerneichner Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Schramm's post suggests that IBM's DKMS key-management system has > a new name; but I, for one, do not know what that new name is. The > IBM CCCC website still talks about DKMS. > > The impetus for a new name is understandable. This acronym is among > the most overloaded I routinely encounter. > > For UNIX people it most often means 'Distributed Kernel Module > Support', but it can also mean 'Distributed Knowledge Management > System', and outside of computing it is the acronym for 'Deutsche > KnochenMarkSpenderdatei', the originally German but now also Polish > and American non-profit organization that maintains a database of > bone-marrow donors for leukemia victims. It can even stand for > Drunken Killing MachineS. > > The IBM product is nevertheless an excellent, severely practical one > that has no real competitors in its specific z/OS environment. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
