Neat History.... I worked at IBM 1983-8 and was a manager in the area that ran PCSHARE and VMSHARE and PCTOOLS. It was an incredible foundary of experience and ideas. Somewhere I still have some 1.2meg floppies of some of the forum discussions. QUALITY was a great one. And the sad day when the Challenger crashed... some of the IBMers saw it from their back yard. I wrote one of the VM/CMS speed up tools that decreased resource utilization by an amazing amount... 147 lines of rexx, 1500 lines of assembler... and a cloud of dust.
Glad to hear it has found a happy home. john alvord On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:42:24 -0400, Coffin Michael C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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)
