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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 186 views
Cloud Compiling, the provider of seamless cloud computing solutions for System z, announced today that IBM invited the company to join IBM’s Destination z to provide its suite of virtual language compilers for COBOL, PL/1, Fortran and C/C++ to IBM’s System z customers worldwide. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 193 views
IBM and CA are hard-pressed to replace the aging Baby Boomers who support their still-indispensable and profitable mainframe business. To combat the threat, IBM began distributing its System Z Academic Initiative to spread the mainframe gospel, and CA has changed the look of mainframe software to make it more appealing.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 578 views
I was able to attend an IBM System z Technology Summit this past Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, and got to learn about some pretty cool bleeding edge (for me) technology for the mainframe, like Rational Asset Analyzer, Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), Visual Macro Editor, Rational Developer, and Rational Team Concert for System z.
I’ve apparently led a pretty sheltered life… I had not heard of this stuff before now.
I could see all kinds of possibilities for these tools for my employer, since they have a large mainframe shop. While I think it was all pretty neat, the chances of my current employer ever investing in something like this are nil (in my opinion), which is sad.
You really ought to check these tools out at a IBM System z Technology Summit near you if you can.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 563 views
IBM has opened a $30 million manufacturing facility in New York that will produce the next generation of high-end Power and System z mainframe systems.
The Poughkeepsie, N.Y., facility, which opened April 13, also will feature an energy-efficient design.
The 56,000-square-foot building, housed within a larger building on IBM’s 400-acre campus, is a testament to the company’s commitment to the Mid-Valley Hudson River area of New York, according to Mike Desens, Poughkeepsie senior location executive with IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. (READ MORE)
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 258 views
IBM is threatening to pursue legal action against TurboHercules, a company that sells services relating to the open source Hercules project, an emulator that allows conventional computers with mainstream operating systems to run software that is designed for IBM System Z mainframe hardware.
In a letter that IBM mainframe CTO Mark Anzani recently sent to TurboHercules, Big Blue says that it has “substantial concerns” that the Hercules project infringes on its patents. The letter is a brusque half-page, but was sent with nine additional pages that list a “non-exhaustive” selection of patents that IBM believes are infringed by the open source emulator. (READ MORE)
Posted by Mike on Friday, April 2, 2010 - 551 views
Since opening the mainframe to run popular open source Linux applications 10 years ago, there are today 3,150 Linux applications enabled for System Z and 70 per cent of the top one hundred global mainframe customers run Linux. (READ MORE)
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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