Timothy Sipples wrote:
Somewhere at home I have an IBM poster that says "VM Soars with 20,000
licenses". This was probably some time in the early to mid 1990s, and has
doubtless dropped hugely since then.
Why would it drop hugely?
Ummm ... maybe because IBM tried to kill it so many times!!!
I vividly remember the last time ... in 1998, with scrawny little Susan
Puglia standing there in front of a huge crowd at SHARE, indicating that
(once again) IBM had killed VM. I also remember some IBMers in
attendance (remaining nameless for their own protection) saying unkind
things under their breath to the effect of, "What do you think we use to
debug z/OS you moron?" The back-story of the discussions leading up to
that decision is even better. A real head-shaker ...
Apparently, IBM management had even less of a clue back then than they
do now (which isn't saying much), because just two years later, in
August 2000, Linux on S/390 won "best of show" honors at Linuxworld --
entirely _because_ of VM! Now they'll stand there and tell the exact
same crowd that virtualization is the key to the future and IBM's
on-demand strategy. Talking heads ... [Sigh!]
The vast majority of mainframe Linux customers run under z/VM. (It's all
but mandatory, for functional and operational reasons, when you have
plural Linux instances.) Mainframe Linux is growing very rapidly. Ergo...
You must be new. ;-)
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