Well, it's Friday, and I'm just about to leave on my 9 hour drive home. There wasn't a whole lot of z800 stuff. Jim Elliott and company had one on the floor of the Tech Exchange, so they could let people see, smell and touch it. Oddly enough, it looks pretty much like a z900. :) They got a fair number of people looking it over, and I told him I wouldn't mind having one in my basement, but it's a little too expensive. :(
Lots of Linux and Linux/390 sessions. Pretty good attendance. Overall attendance was reported to be down from Minneapolis in July, but my "Primer" session attendance went up about 20%. I guess that means Neale Ferguson will want me to do it again. Most of the Linux/390 sessions were pretty well attended, not just mine of course. Scott Courtney put in some dazzling performances for his talks. For someone who hasn't done a lot of public speaking, he's _very_ good at it. (David, Adam, he did you proud, no doubt about it.) There is definitely rising interest in Linux and Linux/390. Hopefully that will mean that someday we'll have someone give a session on a production implementation with real performance numbers. That's one area where there is still no data available for public consumption. The folks from Transtar gave a nice one that may be going production just before SHARE in San Francisco. A lot of people are hoping they'll be able to provide just such a session. Doctor Robinson from Salomon Smith Barney gave a nice presentation on their use of Linux/390, but they're mainly using it in development and infrastructure roles, and are only in the planning stages for moving production applications to it. Lots of information, lots of talks, lots of sore feet (at least on my part). I'm pretty exhausted, and might wind up taking a number of naps on the drive home so that I can arrive safely. I'm very glad that I've got the next two weeks off. I think I'm going to need it to recover from this trip! Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Share Thanks Mark for the CTC info. How's Share going? Lot's of Linux and z800 talk going on...I hope!!! Dave
