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Announcement pending; AIX education
not a priority
By Sarah Kimmel
Monday, February 02, 2004
Though they are anticipating the
slated support for AIX on the iSeries, educational organizations
are pausing before offering instruction on the topic. Customers
will have to wait at least until the official support announcement
to get AIX-on-iSeries education.
“Once the product support is
announced, we will put sessions in place, but right now we are just
positioning ourselves so that when this Statement of Direction comes
to fruition, we can provide the education,” says Bob Krzeczowski,
conference education manager, COMMON, Chicago, IL.
Adding to its list of supported
platforms, the iSeries is slated to announce support for AIX in
iSeries logical partitions with the next generation of iSeries hardware
and the next release of OS/400, according to Insider sources. Sources
also tell the Insider that the announcement of OS/400’s next
release is expected for May of 2004.
“If the announcement comes
on or before COMMON in San Antonio [held May 2-6, 2004], we will
work with IBM to put a curriculum in place,” says Krzeczowski.
Outside the iSeries While
most iSeries shops are familiar with COMMON’s services, some
customers may be introduced to organizations like SHARE and USERblue
with the addition of AIX on the iSeries.
SHARE, a user group for customers
using IBM technologies, offers education on specific offerings,
including application, data, and distributed systems; Linux; MVS;
networking; and systems management. Under the SHARE umbrella, customers
can attend conferences, symposiums, Webcasts, and listservers focused
on these areas.
“USERblue has not had iSeries
sessions at previous events since the platforms and operating systems
have been quite separate. The USERblue program committee is currently
preparing content for our August event, and, as always, we keep
customer demands for particular topics in consideration when finalizing
the session content. One such topic this year is the particularly
hot issue of the partitioning of processors for both pSeries and
iSeries customers,” says Martin Timmerman, director of operations,
SHARE Inc., Chicago, IL.
USERblue, a product of SHARE, is
a user-run organization that provides IBM technology users, specifically
AIX professionals and their organizations, a knowledge exchange
network to solve problems and leverage the potential of IBM products
and services. USERblue 2004, the network’s annual conference,
will be held in New York City from August 15-18, 2004
“Customers can sample a lot
of different IBM technologies, which is great for someone trying
to break into a new platform. Unfortunately, because USERblue 2004
isn’t until August, we aren’t sure which sessions will
be included. But I can say that there will be plenty of sessions
that address AIX,” says Karolyn Farkas, marketing communications
senior assistant, SHARE Inc., Chicago, IL.
When asked what educational opportunities
IBM is planning for iSeries customers interested in running AIX
in an iSeries partition, IBM refused comment.
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