Effective September 16th, after nearly 28 years in VM Development, I am moving to a new role as a member of IBM Lab Services and Training. There I will be part of the team that helps you, our clients, successfully bring Linux to System z, both from a traditional consolidation perspective, as well as exploitation of System z and z/VM's emerging technologies.
I don't make the move lightly or easily, but it serves both my own goals and IBM's. I will continue to reside in Endicott with my friends in Development, I will still annoy them with questions, and I will continue to exert my influence over product plans. By being in Lab Services, however, those questions and that influence will hopefully be the result of deeper, more direct experience with you. While I'm here, let me pause to again publicly thank my colleagues for their many years of support. They always have taken the time to educate me (over and over sometimes!) so that I can pass that knowledge on to you. I will continue to hang out here and I will still see you at conferences. What *will* change? Well, I'll be on the road more, so you'll get fewer near-real-time answers from me on the listservers. (sigh) Oh, and I'll be making more recommendations that you get a Services contract with Yours Truly and the Chuckster to help you. (Hmmm.... do I get to charge twice?) :-D See you in the funny papers. Alan Altmark IBM z/VM Development (for 14 more days)
