I posted this to the VM discussion list earlier today. Sorry for the duplication (since many are on both lists).
This month, I will be leaving Nationwide Insurance and taking up work with Velocity Software. When I interviewed at Nationwide in late 2005, the company had only just begun using mainframe Linux for production work. Of course, it was all on VM. Paul Henry (then director over the mainframe team) put it this way [insert thick Bostonian accent here] - "We're serious about virtualization.". And so it is. Nationwide is a heavy user of z/VM and Linux on System z (and Linux in general), then as now doing very cool stuff with V12N and Linux. Working with Rick Barlow and James Vincent has been the most rewarding part of the job. Those of you know know them either from the VM or zLinux communities or from SHARE can only imagine what has been my reality for the past four and one half years. And the team around us (whom most of you do not know) is phenominal: the most committed group I have thus far been privileged to be a part of. I will miss them. But now the time has come for me to go back to the development world, supporting the software that makes virtualization actually work. If you can't measure it ... well, you know. So I am elated that on the 20th I'll start with Velocity, a company I have always respected with products of renown. I am stoked! -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
