> Perhaps to cause FUD? Or even to cause confusion amongst the rank, and file, members of the community who actually use VM to manage their Linux images/guests. Who knows? Publicity people think differently then normal people, like us.
Except the press release wasn't written by 'publicity people'. I think it's reasonably clear. It uses z/VM to achieve a goal, but you don't need 'traditional mainframe skills' to use it. Perhaps it configures automatically. Perhaps IBM doesn't even give the users the passwords to the privileged virtual machines. This machine is not meant for traditional IT shops - it shouldn't be analysed against our standards. It's for people who've never seen a mainframe before. I've worked on applications before (the SPIRE system that NAS/HDS used world wide was a good example) that were based on VM - but in which VM was utterly invisible to all the users. Easy to do. The z800 variant that will be of more interest to classic IT shops will come in time for Partnerworld - look for an announcement mid- to end-February - but the upcoming event is Linuxworld and that's who IBM is trying to talk to. Not us. -- Phil Payne The Devil's IT Dictionary - last updated 2002/01/28: http://www.isham-research.com/dd.html UK +44 7785 302803 Germany +49 173 6242039
