On Wednesday, 06/09/2010 at 09:40 EDT, "Mrohs, Ray" <[email protected]> wrote: > What we really just saw is another young person being turned away from z/VM, at > a time when the next generation needs to be engaged and involved through
> whatever means possible. But now he will probably direct his energies > elsewhere. IBM could be more proactive in culling new people, especially those > who have an interest in working on VM, by making such environments legally > available with certain capacity and usage restrictions. Not to play the devils > advocate, but many of the best programmers these days started out honing their > skills on inexpensive or "free" resources, and it's a good idea to have them on > your side. As I'm sure you've read, IBM is investing in the Academic Initiative. I and my colleagues have designed and taught a multiple-semester graduate level z/VM course at Binghamton University, with remote access by students at Marist and elsewhere. Marc should certainly lobby his faculty to add this to their curriculum. Outside of such incubators, it is difficult for those without access to a z box to learn. Obviously active z sysprogs have hardware at their disposal as long as their employer is in agreement. Others depend on the kindness of strangers, as it were. For those doing Rational development on z/OS, things are looking up. IBM announced on Monday the IBM Rational Development for System z Unit Test (RDz UT) offering, http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rdz/unit_test.html . Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
