RE: LPAR - micro partitioning an i5-520

From: albartell

I am still waiting for them to come up with a solution to get free access
to
people in the community similar to the Virtual Loaner Program (VLP) that I
have used - though you need to be selling a product to use that service.
Just think if students at a university could gain qualified(*) access to a
System i5 to do their enterprise Java web development!

It's easier than that, Aaron.  Just stick an iSeries in every university
with an IT degree.  They could charge for syllabus material if they wanted;
Universities typically pass that cost directly to the students.  They might
even provide teachers for some subjects.  And then they could get RPG into
the schools as well.

Then again, with high-speed Internet access it might be easier to just take
a few big machines and make them accessible to lots of campuses VLP style
(and then still charge for the syllabuses and/or teachers).  There would
certainly be fewer maintenance issues.  But it would be a little harder to
teach operations classes in those cases.

Joe