Good luck in your New adventure, and thank you ones again for all your help over the years.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>wrote: > 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) >
