The Return of the Mainframe
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| IBM this week introduced the first major overhaul to its System z mainframe
| line in three years. This latest Big Iron from IBM could be a welcome
| development for the company, which has seen its mainframe business struggle
| for several months.
|
| [...]
|
| While IBM talks primarily Linux, Mann said there's also the zOS side, the
| mainframe's native operating system that still has plenty of potential
| use. "IBM is getting into universities to teach zOS and old style
| programming, PL/1 and COBOL, on the z Series," he said.
|
| [...]
|
| But that's just IBM selling to its existing customer base. King things the
| company needs to sell beyond that, which is its real challenge. "I would
| expect the type of company that would be interested in z Series would already
| be using the platform. I can't see them selling this into HP and Dell
| datacenters," he said.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3731086
D-STAR at the 2007 Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon
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| He uses a release of Slackware Linux on a flash drive so no hard drives
| (prone to failure in our experience) or fans would be needed on a repeater
| connected computer. We provide a tiny Web site on each repeater, and also a
| copy of Citadel, an open source mail and conferencing package. We also wrote
| a packet AX.25 interface for Citadel. AX.25 packet radio gateways on these
| appliance computers behind the repeaters are very easy to implement, as the
| AX.25 Linux software is readily available and the computers have serial
| interfaces.
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http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2008/03/01/2/?nc=1
Related:
Microsoft to IBM: Tolerate PSI Mainframes or Quit Europe
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| If you think Microsoft has an aversion to Article 82 of the European Treaty,
| the anti-monopoly law that forced it to open some Windows server APIs and
| also to live with others' media players on desktops, think again. Microsoft
| is backing Platform Solutions (PSI) in an Article 82 action that could loosen
| IBM's grip on the mainframe. If PSI is given the keys to every glass house in
| Europe, Microsoft will be one of its principal guests. In fact, PSI could get
| more from IBM than it wanted when it first announced mainframe-compatible
| systems.Last November 27, PSI announced that it had raised more than $37
| million in additional capital, and that one of the companies in the deal was
| Microsoft. Other investors in PSI include Intel, Blueprint Ventures, Goldman
| Sachs, InterWest Partners, and InvestCorp.
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http://www.itjungle.com/big/big011508-story01.html
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| "We've moved past the ideology," said Sutor, in Salt Lake City
| Thursday to attend graduation ceremonies at Neumont University."
| Many people have figured out that there are a number of ways tom
| ake money from the 'open source' model."
|
| [...]
|
| The litigation has been characterized as part of a proxy war being
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| waged by Microsoft against Linux, seen as a prime challenger to
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Windows. Microsoft has been a prime funding source for SCO, but
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| earlier this month stunned open-sourcers by announcing a development
| pact for Novell's Suse-brand of Linux.
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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4679245?source=rss
Enterprise Unix Roundup: EU vs. Microsoft vs. IBM
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| Over on IT Jungle, I just read an interesting story about how Microsoft is
| (by proxy) cleverly using the same law that was just smacked over its head
| for Windows market dominance against IBM's mainframe base in Europe.
|
| The story, by Hesh Wiener, is a fascinating look into the world of
| litigation-as-business-strategy, and details the complaint filed by Platform
| Solutions (PSI) against IBM for violating Article 82 of the European
| Commission (EC) Treaty. The complaint was filed, according to a Dec. 18
| Reuters story, way back on Oct. 19.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3722066
Spectrum Auction: The C-Block Bidding Stalls at $4.7 Billion
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| We won’t know who the high bidder is until the auction is completed for all
| the other smaller licenses, which could take weeks. Since no more than one
| bid was received in each round, there may have been one company bidding all
| along.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/spectrum-auction-the-c-block-bidding-is-over-at-47-billion/?ref=technology
http://tinyurl.com/2jc6kg
Young mainframers' group gains momentum
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| ZNextGen, an organization aimed at young mainframe programmers, has gained
| significant momentum since it was created roughly two years ago through IBM
| and its user group, SHARE, according to its leaders.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2117956941&rid=-50
Did Microsoft ruin SCO?
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| Which comes to the scenario in mind. Gates approaches McBride and puts forth
| a proposition that SCO should try and make money out of Linux. He offers to
| bankroll the operation in a backhanded manner and then steps back to watch
| the action unfold. His reasoning for doing this? To have a test run before he
| puts Microsoft through the same paces. Either way he wins.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/did-microsoft-ruin-sco-19663
Novell Makes it Easier to Start With Linux on IBM's System z Mainframe
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| Novell today announced the availability of the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
| Starter System for System z, a pre-built installation server that simplifies
| the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM's System z
| mainframes. The starter system eliminates the need for IT managers to search
| for network access to installation media on the mainframe. With the new
| Starter System for System z, customers can quickly initiate evaluations of
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080130/aqw036.html?.v=43
User-group study: Mainframes live on through SOA
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| Mainframes like IBM's System z are integral to SOA almost by default because
| they contain a large portion of the world's business information, the study
| suggests. Thirty percent of respondents who work for companies with 10,000 or
| more employees said between 51 percent and 75 percent of their company's data
| is managed and stored on a mainframe, according to the study.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/22/Mainframes-live-on-through-SOA_1.html
IBM Faces EU Antitrust Complaint by Mainframe Maker [friend of Microsoft]
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| International Business Machines Corp., the world's biggest computer-services
| company, is accused in a European Union complaint filed by a
| mainframe-computer maker of refusing to supply data needed for compatible
| products.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aykyYQcLeH_4&refer=europe
IBM upgrades z/VSE mainframe OS for wider ecommerce and Linux use
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| IBM has upgraded its z/VSE mainframe operating system to further support
| ecommerce and widening Linux use.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/10/22/227655/ibm-upgrades-zvse-mainframe-os-for-wider-ecommerce-and-linux.htm
Big Iron lives on
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| These Linux-only processors are priced approximately 90 percent
| lower than a processor utilised for a traditional mainframe workload.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9369
Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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| There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
| of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
| always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
| fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
Linux drives a mainframe revival
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| Linux may not be everyone?s idea of a mainframe operating system,
| but for a growing number of large and medium-sized businesses
| the synergy between Linux and big iron is the solution to as
| ignificant problem.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RSS/Articles/2006/11/16/219927/Linux+drives+a+mainframe+revival.htm
http://tinyurl.com/tdjgr
Mainframe in comeback mode
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| We have over 1,300 independent software vendors who work with the
| Mainframe. We have 300 to 400 in the Linux arena. We have many
| business partners and some integrators too, that we work with.
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2007/01/01/stories/2007010100110300.htm
IBM and Oracle Agreement Strengthens Mainframe Computing, IDC Says
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| IBM and Oracle announced this initiative to collaborate on the sales
| and marketing of a series of enterprise business solutions with
| Oracle applications and technology for Linux on System z on
| October 24, 2006. It targets the business requirements of large
| and medium size enterprise customers and meets growing marketd
| emand, complementing a series of investments IBM and Oracle have
| made in support of Linux as an enterprise application platform.
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=207879
Linux-on-Mainframe Apps Up 100%: IBM
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| IBM recently reported a 390% jump in mainframe sites running Linux.
| It says more than 60% of its mainframe revenue is now coming from
| new workloads, with approximately 20% of the revenue and 30% of the
| MIPS coming from Linux customers, which is what has the ISVs
| interested.
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http://issj.sys-con.com/read/317754.htm
IBM touts mainframes to India
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| It wants large and mid-sized companies to consider running Linux
| virtual machines on a mainframe instead of stand-alone servers.
| It argues that not only does it bring operational efficiency -
| there's just one machine to house and manage - but it has
| performance advantages too, as a mainframe copes with demand
| spikes better than a rack-mount server
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/10/ibm_zos_india/
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