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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 170 views
A Georgian College computer programming student is a master of the mainframe.
At least that’s what IBM is saying, as second-year student Nathan Voth placed second in IBM’s Master the Mainframe contest.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 300 views
Every year, about this time, mainframe users are excited to get their hands on the latest edition of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. What makes the Yearbook stand out is that it’s an excellent reference work for all IBM mainframe professionals – no matter how many years of experience they have.
Posted by Mike on Monday, November 7, 2011 - 332 views
IBM has made good on its promise to deliver Windows integration with the IBM mainframe via the zEnterprise System.
When IBM introduced the zEnterprise in July 2010, the company also announced plans to deliver additional general-purpose blades for the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension including IBM System x-based blades running Linux in 2011. IBM also suggested it would support Windows, and in April 2011 it confirmed its plans to deliver Windows support on z/Enterprise.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 208 views
Some Fun With Numbers Reveals the Ambiguity of the IT World
One of the major IT stories today involves a technology that grew almost 70% year-on-year and practically doubled its market share.
The other involves something that a major research company thinks will only command about 5% of the market in 2015.
The first sounds like a clear-cut winner. The other sounds like something that is dying on the vine.
The first of these is the IBM mainframe; the other is Cloud Computing.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 238 views
Continuing to call more attention to its recently achieved status as the world’s #1 server vendor, Hewlett-Packard is slapping back aggressively at IBM’s recent claims to have wooed hundreds of HP customers via IBM’s Migration Factory campaign, with HP saying more than 100 IBM mainframe customers have switched over to HP systems in the past year. Read the rest of this article…
Posted by Mike on Friday, December 3, 2010 - 358 views
For months, IBM (IBM) has been unhappy with French company TurboHercules SAS, because the latter has tried to develop an open source emulation of IBM mainframe systems. Moreover, TurboHercules is one company accusing IBM of anti-competitive activity in Europe.
Now Big Blue has greater cause of concern, as Microsoft (MSFT) has invested in TurboHercules. Not only might Microsoft be using the relationship as a way to attack its rival by proxy, but it could also see mainframe emulation as a tool in its quest to become a dominant force in cloud computing.
Posted by Mike on Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 562 views
Here’s a place to find free Online IBM Reference Manuals for Mainframe Cobol, Batch Processing, Online Processing, Tools, Editors, Utilities, Databases and Messages. I’m sure there are probably others, so feel free to leave comments.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 345 views
Mainframes are supposed to be passe. Yet despite a price tag that can head into the millions, they still represent healthy chunk of the top end of the server marketplace. According to IDC, about they account for 32 percent of the high-end of the pie.
IBM, of course, owns almost all of the mainframe market under its flagship System z brand. Far from being a stagnant area of the market, IBM (NYSE: IBM) invests heavy R&D dollars into this line.
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