Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 298 views
Innovative application development methodology produces portable Web applications
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 282 views
OK – that’s as far as I intend to go with sport metaphors. I’m talking about IBM and Oracle and where their long-term war is taking them next.
You’ll remember that Oracle bought Sun Microsystems early last year for $7.4 billion. Since then, IBM has been hoovering up customers. In August, market researchers IDC were saying that IBM had grown its Unix revenues by 15 percent in the second quarter and its market share by 6 percent. Adding that Oracle had lost share.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 210 views
It comes and goes. It’s like a pendulum swinging in one direction, running out of steam, and then swinging in the completely opposite direction. And it applies to countries, economies, and the way people view computing. Let me explain…
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 515 views
IBM, HP, and Oracle aim to place Unix-based midrange systems in the heart of the data center.
No one questions the stability, reliability, and durability of Unix. But there are lots of questions about its future, particularly on systems that occupy the market between commodity x86 boxes and mainframes. The midrange Unix market hasn’t grown in years, and the operating system faces competition from its cousin Linux, which can run on a variety of hardware platforms, from x86 to the more powerful and reliable systems that were originally built for Unix.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 3,724 views
Interested in DB2? This group is for you! Fans of all DB2 versions on all platforms (DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows, DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for i5/OS) are welcome.
DB2 is IBM’s flagship database management system designed to handle both relational data as well as data stored as XML documents. The hallmark characteristics of DB2 are world’s best proven performance, virtually unlimited scalability, unmatched reliability and security.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 8, 2010 - 358 views
BC Card, the largest credit card processor in South Korea, is dumping its Unix servers, made by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, and moving its processing applications to mainframes made by IBM.
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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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