I can calm some of your fears. While I have nothing to do with the Academic Initiative Program here at ISU, I was the Derry quoted in the article. Have you ever tried to explain a variable priced computer and incremental software charges to non-technical newspaper people before. It ain't easy.
The z890 that was loaned to ISU will be configured as a model 370 and with an IFL. It will be configured with 4 LPARS. A z/OS LPAR will be for operating system students to install, configure and IPL at will. I can only imagine how many times that will be IPL'ed in a day. The other LPAR will be a more stable z/OS system for teaching DB2, COBOL, Assembler, and other courses. I heard at Educause that a large retail company has donated 2 million rows of transactional DB2 data for the Academic Initiative project. There will also be two z/VM LPARS with Linux instances under them. What I thought was interesting was that the program included any IBM software that the students want. The one thing that did get to me during the ceremony was that they kept talking about the old baby-boomers that are currently running the systems. I don't want to be called old at 49. Have a good day all you gray-beards. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ. IBM invests $5 million in ISU information technology program By Michele Steinbacher November 15, 2007 NORMAL — Illinois State University senior Joe Ksiazek is among those who say IBM’s estimated $5 million investment in the campus’s information technology program could open doors to more 21st century jobs for him and his classmates. “This offers students like me a great opportunity to learn new technologies being used in the business world,” said Ksiazek, a Chicagoan studying computer sciences. Article continues here: http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/11/15/news/doc473be157569a9875622727.txt - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
