All the best to you!
--- 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)
>
