Sunny, NO it is not !
Too many of the University's that helped VM get started in 1972 and Flourish in the 80's and also produced some of our greatest TOOLS and tool MAKERS have decommissioned there VM systems in the last 10 years. I think they just lost there direction ;-) BUT the MAINFRAME and z/VM and z/OS and z/VSE are still alive and well and teaching NEW and Younger System Programmers. so hang in there and do not give up hope. Bill Munson Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. 525 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 201-418-7588 President MVMUA http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/BillMunson [email protected] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> 01/04/2010 02:06 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Moving on: The University of Maine (System) shuts down mainframe Puzzled? Is that the future for the mainframe ? Sunny From: Wayne Smith <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/04/2010 11:30 AM Subject: Moving on: The University of Maine (System) shuts down mainframe Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> Hi all, It's been 7 years in the making, or tearing down. We shutdown our mainframe December 31. We ran VM for an incredible 38.5 years and it was a blast, especially at SHARE and the various incarnations of this group! Gerry Dube has retired (mostly), though not before helping all Maine K-12 schools and libraries be very well connected to the internet. Kerry Anderson leads our e-mail, ID management, DNS and several other areas, and of course has built world-class tools to integrate and manage the systems. My hats include Listserv postmaster, Oracle DBA, and backup and recovery. We're just now implementing a new D2D2D system (Quantum & NetBackup). Our administrative systems have moved to PeopleSoft on Sun Solaris SPARC machines, with nearly all of the rest of our shop on Linux Intel machines. In an odd twist (of cruelty), we've retrained one of our mainframe operators to handle our Windows systems work. ;-) Happy New Year to all! Cheers, Wayne Wayne T Smith -- [email protected] Systems and Operations Group, ITS, UMS Scanned by WCB Webgate2 AntiSpam/AntiVirus email gateway. This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original email. Thank you. (Sent by Webgate1) *************************** IMPORTANT NOTE*****************************-- The opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and not necessarily those of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates ("BBH"). There is no guarantee that this message is either private or confidential, and it may have been altered by unauthorized sources without your or our knowledge. Nothing in the message is capable or intended to create any legally binding obligations on either party and it is not intended to provide legal advice. BBH accepts no responsibility for loss or damage from its use, including damage from virus. ********************************************************************************
