Posted by Mike on Monday, September 19, 2011 - 304 views
Brewster Smith specialized in mainframe systems for 35 years in the technology industry, recently converting his employer’s mainframe to servers that use newer programming languages. When Smith completed the project in July, his company laid him off because his skills no longer fit the new system. Read more…
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, March 7, 2011 - 528 views
2011 has been dubbed by some as the year of the cloud – the year when cloud computing comes off the PowerPoint slides and onto a computer near you. Others have muttered wisely about similarities with client-server computing, which for many years was the ‘technology of the future’ at every presentation and never quite arrived the way we were promised.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 150 views
Mainframes have never gone away, despite what many in the PC business would like to think. And as servers start to look less and less like PCs and, as they consolidate in the datacentre using techniques such as virtualisation, increasingly like mainframes, you’ll soon start asking why you should bother with servers at all?
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 8, 2010 - 558 views
Scan through IT news on any given day, and there’s a good chance you’ll find a story about some large organization or another replacing its IBM mainframe with servers running UNIX, Linux — and sometimes even Windows.
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