It is worth noting that IBM has an established program called IBM Academic Initiatives. If you offer any courses on your Zs and you *need* z/VM to offer those courses, IBM will *possibly* negotiate a free license of z/VM. I'm at NIU and we have two ESA/390s donated by IBM many years before my time. It is also worth noting that we have had difficulty with demonstrating that our curriculum *requires* VM, which we would love to use to allow students to run their own guest Linux/390 images, where they may be root and try things in a nicely sandboxed environment.
Apparently, this is not a sufficient *need* as we have been unsuccessful. There has been some unconfirmed speculation that if we but had a Z, we could institute a course in z/VM+z/Linux administration, creating a need. Unfortunately, when IBM offered us a Z, university politics reared their ugly head, a Microsoft evangelist convinced the big cheese that "Mainframe is dead" and not only will we not be housing a Z, virtually assuring IBM won't send us one, they have chosen to unplug our ESA/390s. We now have to use Marist's machine remotely to conduct our mainframe courses, which are many and varied, mainframe being the backbone of our program. It's a very sad tale but the silver lining is, perhaps you folks up at Washington could offer the class, get the license, and voila! Just a thought, Erik Johnson On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:08 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/11/09 7:33 PM, "Gibney, Dave" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I may have some interest in zLinux around here. The usual caveat of >> [snip] >> Good idea? Or am I making it more complicated than I need to? >> Dave Gibney >> Information Technology Services >> Washington State University > > Well, it would certainly be cool to have WSUVM1 alive again...8-) > > Given WSU's historical relationship with IBM, I would suspect that if you > asked IBM for a loaner copy of z/VM, one would appear for a long period of > time. I think that while you *could* do VM->LPAR, it would probably be less > hassle and more productive to try to negotiate a long-term loan. > > -- db > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
