Hi Dave, That's funny! When I left IBM in 1999 they were aggressively moving the internal Forums to Bloatus Notes. It was a HORRIBLE implementation (like all of the conversions from CMS to Bloatus Notes) and people just plain stopped using the internal Forums (which were, up until then when running on CMS, a treasure-trove of great information).
This was during the era when IBM had dictated that ALL applications will be migrated to Bloatus Notes (whether it made any sense or note). I was a key programmer for a suite of tools that ran on VM/CMS and we were constantly being ordered to migrate to Bloatus Notes. This was during the late 1990's, and as of this writing these applications still run (perfectly!) on VM/CMS. Maybe IBM has given up on forcing everything into Notes and is considering "more appropriate platforms"! :) Thanks for sharing that, I got a real kick out of it! Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20224 Voice: (202) 927-4188 FAX: (202) 622-3123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM Moves Key Applications To Linux [Cross posted to Linux390 and VMESA-L lists]. IBM released the following press release late yesterday afternoon. I think the community here might find it of interest: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/020814/045483.htm The paragraph that I especially noticed, having used IBM customer (external) forums for years now, is: Internal IBM Forums IBM runs its internal community collaboration systems using Linux on VM on an IBM eServer zSeries to provide service to more than 300,000 IBM employees worldwide. Collaboration is provided using forums, or newsgroups, to allow IBM employees worldwide to discuss hundreds of different technical and business topics. These forums provide a way to host written discussions on any relevant topic, and new content is appended to each forum as users contribute. The forums are open to all IBM employees across the company. The mainframe running Linux is integrated into IBM's single Intranet solution called w3.ibm.com. This award-winning portal for IBM employees has over 17 million hits per day. The forums have over 15,000 new posts every month and provide a valuable source of information on 800 different topics. Dave Jones http://www.sinenomine.net/ Houston, TX 281.578.7544 (voice)
