Phil - 

I had sent this to Bob a couple of weeks ago:

Jay

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:           	Jay W. Anderson <jwanderson at uswest.net>
To:             	Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>
Subject:        	(Fwd) Fw: [nylug-talk] URL For Free Access to IBM 
S390 Linux C
Date sent:      	Fri, 4 May 2001 08:42:17 -0500

Bob - 

This came across the redhat-install list today.  Thought that you  
might be interested. 

Jay 
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Date sent:      	Thu, 3 May 2001 09:48:26 -0400 
From:           	"Danny" <dwheeler at suffolk.lib.ny.us> 
To:             	"Kalum / Grendel" <kalum at lintux.cx>, "	" <redhat-
install-list at redhat.com> 
Subject:        	Fw: [nylug-talk] URL For Free Access to IBM S390 
Linux Community Development System 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gleason" <jim at valinux.com> 
To: <nylug-talk at nylug.org> 
Cc: <lsantalu at us.ibm.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:48 PM 
Subject: [nylug-talk] URL For Free Access to IBM S390 Linux Community 

Development System 


> Thanks to Len Santalucia for making this possible. Hack away 
> everyone and let's discuss our results on the list. 
> 
> - Jim 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------- 
> Jim Gleason VA Linux Systems 
> email: jim at valinux.com http://www.valinux.com 
> phone: 212-858-7684 Pres. New York Linux Users Group 
> fax: 212-858-7685 http://www.nylug.org 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:09:59 -0400 
> From: Leonard Santalucia <lsantalu at us.ibm.com> 
> To: jim at valinux.com 
> Subject: URL For Linux Community Development System 
> 
> Jim, 
> 
> Great news!  Our Linux Community Development System has been 
approved. 
> Registration is now open. 
> 
>                    The Linux Community Development System (the 
'Service'), 
> a Service provided by IBM. The Service 
>                     provides access to Linux on a S/390 environment 
for 
the 
> purpose of providing the Open Source 
>                     community with a platform to develop, port 
and/or test 
> drive their products or applications on this platform. We 
>                     anticipate the majority of users to include 
> entrepreneur developers/vendors that otherwise might not have the 
>                     opportunity to test/port their code to the 
S/390 
> platform. However, we invite all interested parties that meet the 
>                     established terms and conditions to register 
and 
> experience "Linux for S/390". 
> 
> The web site is highlighted below. Please post on NYLUG forum. 
Please let 
> me know if you have any questions. 
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/lcds/ 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic16838.pcx) 
> 
> Leonard J. Santalucia 
> Senior Consulting Sales Specialist & Certified Professional 
> IBM Americas eServer Linux Sales and Marketing 
> Tieline 340-5957 <> Outside 212-493-5957 
> Cell 917-856-4493 <> Fax 212-493-5957 
> Internal: Leonard Santalucia/New York/IBM 
> email: LSantalu at us.ibm.com 
> Visit: http://www.ibm.com/linux and 
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver 
> 
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On 23 May 01, at 8:34, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:

> Did someone say they knew IBM was going to open an S/390 to the
> public?  It's on the front page of slashdot this morning, but I don't know
> if it's old news or not.  There are a few caveats.  But I know there's a
> few people with some interest...