On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:46 -0400, Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote:

> Almost sounds as if there ought to be two flavors of ZVM - heavy duty 
> where it's used for more than a hypervisor as in our case where we have a 
> client who uses it with NOMAD; and a light ZVM for containing multiple 
> images of LINUX.
> 
> As for the latter, it could almost be a black box operation. Install it, 
> drive your LINUX farm, and never really mess with it otherwise.

When IBM jumped on the Linux bandwagon they floated such a scenario, and
appeared to be trying to kill the full product VM as "collateral
damage".
Given the fiasco it was, that product was quietly killed, and z/VM
became the fantastic marketing "golden child" we must all now believe
in.

Cynicism, what cynicism ???...

Shane ...

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