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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 19, 2011 - 280 views
Well, as another year comes partying to an end, and everyone stops checking their e-mails on their smartphones or tablets and finally starts to let their hair down and enjoy a glass of something alcoholic, I thought I’d review the year through the lens of my company – iTech-Ed Ltd (www.itech-ed.com).
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Posted by Mike on Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 356 views
New workloads account for almost one-third of MIPS growth, and mainframers are as optimistic as ever about the future of Big Iron.
The mainframe has never been more essential. That’s the not-so-surprising upshot of BMC Software Corp.’s sixth annual Worldwide Mainframe Survey, which — like previous years — suggests Big Iron is doing just fine, thank you.
Big mainframe shops are big MIPS consumers. MIPS capacity continues to expand: more than two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) said their transaction volumes for existing applications are growing; almost as many (65 percent) cited business growth as an important engine for MIPS expansion. Almost one-third (31 percent) said new workloads are driving MIPS growth.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 8, 2011 - 346 views
IBM’s dark-suited legal team can relax a little following the news that three organisations have agreed to drop antitrust complaints filed against IBM in Europe and the USA. The companies involved are T3 Technologies, NEON Enterprise Software, and TurboHercules.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 226 views
Addressing some of the chief problems faced by mainframe operators, CA Technologies has updated its stack of mainframe management software to help cut costs and simplify management.
Posted by Mike on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 240 views
BMC Software said Friday it has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Neon’s IMS tools help mainframe users manage and keep up IMS database installations. Their addition to BMC’s existing lineup of mainframe software will create “the broadest and most comprehensive” IMS toolset in the industry, BMC said in a statement.
The deal follows last month’s settlement of a long-running legal dispute between Neon and IBM over zPrime.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 273 views
All this talk about 2011 being the year of the cloud rings true. I say that because marketing hype is usually a bit ahead of the curve. But I realize that I’m using cloud computing a lot these days – and I don’t mean (necessarily) for work.
Posted by Mike on Friday, March 25, 2011 - 333 views
With an endless wave of new companies pushing innovative new technologies, the BI market has been one of the most dynamic in the software industry during the past 20 years.
…[T]he plethora of advertisements about BI capabilities that appear on television (e.g., IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign) and major consumer magazines (e.g. SAP and SAS Institute ads) reinforce the maturity of BI as a mainstream market. BI is now front and center on the radar screen of most CIOs, if not CEOs, who want to better leverage information to make smarter decisions and gain a lasting competitive advantage.
To prove this point, Wayne created a great timeline of the Business Intelligence industry mapping the changes in Users against those of the Vendors.
Prior to 1990, Wayne tells of how companies used 3GL (COBOL, PL/1, etc.) and 4GL (NOMAD, RAMIS, and FOCUS) computer programming languages to handle reporting needs.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 379 views
Cobol software supplier Micro Focus has lost nearly one-third of its value as it warns that its full year figures will be disappointing.
Revenues in the three months to January 2011 were below expectations and the shortfall will not be made up this year. A number of deals were deferred or lost. The business is still cash generative. Net debt is $5.5m.
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