Re: IBM Systems Conference

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks pretty heavily weighted toward Z and big data centers. Might have some
value to large i shops, but maybe not for the average i shop.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What do y'all think of this new conference?
>
> http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=page&c=N799690U22513C84
>
> Actually, when I saw Al Zollar as one of the keynote speakers I found it
> to be a big turnoff.  Left a bad taste in my mouth when he left as
> director of iSeries Marketing to Tivoli marketing and one of the first
> things that happened was that support for Tivoli on i was dropped and we
> had to migrate a multi TB application to Linux.  (Beware of things that
> migrate from native to PASE.  It's only a stepping stone...)
>
> This conference is not the same as
> "IBM Power Systems Technical University"  formerly know as the IBM iSeries
> Technical Conference
>
> http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=page&c=a0000712
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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