To echo Mark's notes, attendance was excellent in the Linux on zSeries sessions. My "Mainframe Linux Update" went from 110 in Minneapolis to 117 in Nashville. The majority of the audience were new to this, and most were MVS sysprogs. A lot were at the Linux sessions because "their boss told them to learn about Linux".
And yes, we had a nice new z800 at SHARE in the trade show. It is actually a little smaller than the x900 (in all dimensions). A big reason, the z800 is air cooled with the z900 has a "closed loop" cooling system. I had to leave early on Wednesday (and the airline lost my luggage!) to go to Edmonton Canada. I presented the Linux story to the local Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) dinner last night to an audience of over 150. It was enthusiastically received! The charts for my SHARE and CIPS sessions are on my web site at http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott under User Groups. Regards, Jim Elliott - Linux Advocate, IBM Canad
