On Friday, 10/23/2009 at 07:17 EDT, Ivan Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > P S wrote: > > And while we're debating correct terminology, remember that it's "z/VM". > > The slash is required: it's software. z/VM, z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, > > z/Architecture (yeah, that's considered software). z10, z9, z900, z800, > > etc. -- hardware. > > Almost but... > > Those products are still part of STG (Systems & Technology Group), not > SWG (Software Group) - so they are not really to be referred as > "software" (i.e. not part of either Lotus/Websphere/Tivoli/IM/Rational > brands).
Ivan, software is software, without regard to the division that creates it. You would be correct in saying, however, that most of the software developed by STG is branded only "IBM", without the Lotus, etc., moniker. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
