Mark: Conceptually, there are bound to be similarities. From a code base point of view, there is no feasible means of integration, if only because z/VM is Assembler and PL/X. Of course, the architectural differences present a much more significant barrier to having any commonality in the code base.
Romney On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:16:42 -0500 Post, Mark K said: >I received this item today from InfoWorld. I'm wondering if anyone on the >IBM VM development team could comment if any part of z/VM is being >integrated into this software. (Alan, Romney?) > >Mark Post > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >PARTNERWORLD - IBM AND VMWARE WORK ON PARTITIONING TOOLS > >Posted February 19, 2002 03:38 Pacific Time > >SAN FRANCISCO -- - IBM Corp. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership Tuesday >to work on improving partitioning software for high end Intel-based servers. > >Partitioning tools, once only common on mainframes, have made their way to >higher-end Unix servers, and now IBM and VMware are looking to add the same >software to servers with 16 or fewer Intel Corp. processors, said Jay >Bretzmann, director of xSeries server marketing at IBM. The companies have >developed a version of the software for IBM's x360 server and plan an update >to the software for the third quarter that will be aimed at the high end of >the xSeries line. > > >For the full story: >http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/19/020219hnibmvm.xml?0219tuam
