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Celebrating VM longevity!

VM's 30th birthday.....!

It seems like yesterday that the VM community celebrated VM's 25th. VM's 30th was celebrated in August 2002 at SHARE in San Francisco.

Happy 25th Birthday, VM !


VM's 25th on August 2, 1997

*Imagine a birthday cake graphic*

Happy 25th Birthday, VM! IBM announced its first official VM product on August 2, 1972. That product was VM/370. Who would have known that it would evolve into today's z/VM --a popular, flexible, scalable, interactive system favored by many worldwide. Built on a solid foundation of experience, today's VM can serve provides the zSeries virtualization technology.