Glad to hear much isn't changing! ;-) Good luck with the new position.
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Moving on (please don't panic) Congratulations and best of luck in your new position, Alan. On 09/02/2010 09:48 AM, Alan Altmark 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) > > -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO
