Alan 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. Congrats! Hey, why doesn't Chuckie stay in dev, and you go on? Then we'd get the best of both worlds! ...phsiii
