Re: COMMON, San Antonio, Linux Focus

Don,

It was a different experience at LinuxWorld in July.  The iSeries held it's 
own and was very well displayed in the primary IBM booth.  What I found odd 
and bizzare was the z folks were banished to a separate booth down from the 
primary IBM area where the iSeries was.
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> this is just facinating.  When I was at linuxworld at Javitts last
> Jan/Feb, IBM was telling the folks in the expo NOT to use linux on
> iSeries, but to use zSeries instead....they didn't think the iSeries linux
> implementation was good enough...
> 
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> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> >
> > <snip>
> > what? whatz this???? tell us more? what are you saying here? little
> > bombshells like this are awfully exciting!! :)
> > </snip>
> >
> > The major focus of the San Antonio COMMON Conference will be Linux, not
> > necessarily on the iSeries, but in an iSeries centric shop.  Sessions are
> > being set up so you can learn how to utilize Linux in the datacenter, as a
> > stand alone on an xSeries, or as an LPAR on the iSeries or pSeries, to
> > replace many of the functions relegated to an Microsoft server today.  This
> > conference will still have all the iSeries stuff you have come to expect,

> > but will also include a focus on the business proposition and technical
> > issues with Linux in the enterprise.
> >
> > Since we are just now starting to put together the map of sessions, (about
> > 1/2 done) I would welcome topic suggestions (and speaker suggestions) for
> > that conference.  Please send to me off line unless you think the group
> > would benefit.  The speakers  do not have to be iSeries literate, just open
> > minded enough to want to run Linux on the best server in the market for
> > it....;-)    See the COMMON web site for more information.
> >
> > Jim Oberholtzer
> > Senior Solutions Architect
> > Computech Resources, Inc.
> >
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