RE: 2015 COMMON Thoughts! -- MIDRANGE-L

That says more about IBM vs. OEM racks too.  Serious steel in them baby's. 

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: 2015 COMMON Thoughts!

Responding to Vern's note on the Labs. I provide the server and setup of
that for the conference. I spoke to most of the lab presenters and interest
in labs was Excellent at this conference. One of the labs had folks outside
in the hallway sitting on the couches doing the lab!

You know that Power Systems are tough when the server rack which is (er,
WAS) bolted to a 4x4 pallet with 6 IBM Rack Casters under it had it's pallet
completely ripped off and discarded. That had to be a serious impact to
shred that! Yet everything in side was undamaged and ran perfectly. :-)


         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 5/12/2015 10:14 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Hi Brad
>
> I can speak as both an attendee and a speaker. In addition, as a 
> member of CAAC, I benefit from hearing some of the material from IBM 
> throughout the year.
>
> 1 of my sessions was full - the one on creating XLSX files. And the 
> lab for it was almost full.
>
> Open labs were well used, I was told, so people wanted to try out what 
> they learned.
>
> I went to a session on node.js and finally think I have an idea of 
> what it could be used for.
>
> I went to a session on the new samba support and, again, feel I have a 
> better handle on it.
>
> Then a surprise about XML shredding - something I'd missed completely 
> when working with XML-INTO instead of trying to master the XML support 
> in SQL a couple years ago.
>
> So for me, the new technologies were there and something I can use. I 
> think there was strong interest in the new stuff and living in a world 
> of disparate operating systems.
>
> Vern
>
> On 5/11/2015 10:39 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:
>> I rarely have the time to attend these events but I would love to 
>> hear from those that got to attend the latest COMMON...
>>
>> What topics where hot?  What were not?
>>
>> What did you learn and bring back to your shop?
>>
>> What did you wish would have been covered, and what was covered that 
>> you thought didn't need to be (and why?)
>>
>> What will you implement and what won't you implement?... and what you 
>> you WISH you could implement, but can't?
>>
>> Brad
>> www.bvstools.com
>
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