Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 302 views
Innovative application development methodology produces portable Web applications
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Posted by Mike on Monday, November 21, 2011 - 281 views
DETROIT, Nov 21, 2011 — Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, today released the results of an independent research study conducted by Vanson Bourne* into mainframe use in the enterprise. Key findings from the international survey indicate that a retiring mainframe workforce is exposing enterprises to rising costs and increased business risks.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 340 views
There is a tendency to think that with technology everything old is swept aside by the new. But behind every shiny toy is one of the most powerful axioms of engineering: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Once established, computer languages tend to fit that model. It is not simply that they have been used to create applications which continue to work, the software engineers’ coding skills do not disappear instantly either. Although there cannot be many around who were in at the genesis of Cobol in 1959.
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Posted by Mike on Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 261 views
High obsolescence is a hallmark of information technology. By industry standards, 18 months, at best, is the longevity of a product or technology. But the IT space’s longest survivor, one that is there from the beginning, is the most unlikeliest of them all, the mainframe.
Its epitaph was written long ago. Universities rusticated mainframe from their curriculum decades back, thinking that skinny personal computers will drive out the bulky box that needs almost a whole room and all the paraphernalia, not to speak of a dedicated team of eternally confounded operators, to run it. But now, the storied PCs are on their way out, but the ‘big iron’ is firmly stay put, though a lot slimmer and trimmer.
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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, 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.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 259 views
Attachmate’s SUSE Linux division is updating their Linux appliance-making technology with a new release. SUSE Studio 1.2 includes new features as well as new branding for what was once known as the SUSE Appliance Toolkit.
SUSE Studio started out as an online service in 2009 and then expanded it with an on-premise version for enterprises and software vendors in 2010. For on-premise users, the technology was known as the SUSE Appliance Toolkit and included the SUSE Lifecycle Management Server (SLMS).
With SLMS an ISV can manage software licenses and entitlements as well as distribute software patches and updates. With the SUSE Studio 1.2 update, the on-premise suite will only have the SUSE Studio name and the Appliance Toolkit name is being dropped. Instead, there is now the SUSE Studio Standard and Advanced Editions. The key addition with the advanced edition is that it enables users to build Linux appliances that will run on IBM’s System Z mainframe.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 201 views
It is still innovative, agile and everywhere
Often the next version of the technology has arrived even before an organisation has had a chance to get a grip with the current version. So how can one technology survive over 50 years, and continue to dominate the Industry among such change and growth?
Even Java, a much lauded language when it arrived 20 years ago, is already deemed to be old and “legacy”. Yet, according to analyst Gartner, more than 70% of the world’s business is run by a technology that was christened over 50 years ago – COBOL, or Common Business-Oriented Language.
Over the many years COBOL has continuously evolved to keep pace with technology developments, integrating seamlessly with most modern technologies today. Most importantly, it has retained many of its traditional strengths.
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