Re: COMMON, San Antonio, Linux Focus

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, Now that's interesting...

I can only afford one of those things a year....



On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 mhshaw@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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...
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > <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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