You forgot 
(l) would like to practice SERVICE and PUT2PROD weekly!

Marcy 

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-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IBMVM] SHARE attendees - Any Update on the Live Guest
Migration?

On Tuesday, 03/10/2009 at 11:50 EDT, Marcy Cortes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> We've had a lot of success with the ESPs.
> I'm know a few others here have too.

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