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)
>
>


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