Best of luck to you Alan. If your travels bring you to sunny Naples, Fl, give me a call.
Bill Janulin ASPG, Inc. --- On Thu, 9/2/10, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alan Altmark <[email protected]> > Subject: Moving on (please don't panic) > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 10:48 AM > 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) >
