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Virtualization on i Boxes Depends on Consolidation, New Workloads
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| "If you want to provide backup for other hardware, it can be done more easily
| in an LPAR," he says. "Some customers are looking at that using the i box to
| create a virtualized version of Linux X86 workloads in case those machines go
| down. It provides a live, up-and-running copy, even if it not going to run
| permanently on the i. It boosts the availability of those Linux workloads."
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| This is not a primary reason for people to use Linux, Robinson admits, but it
| addresses a need for companies using virtualization to become more resilient
| on the entry-level machines.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh051809-story02.html
Recent:
Microsoft’s Mainframe Obsession
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| Microsoft’s name popped up on a few occasions in my article published Monday
| about I.B.M.’s moves over the last couple of years to keep tight control over
| the mainframe computer market. As it turns out, Microsoft paid for a study
| about servers that can emulate mainframes, financed two mainframe emulation
| companies suing I.B.M on antitrust grounds and sponsored a trade group
| critical of I.B.M.’s decision to buy its most significant competitor in the
| mainframe market.
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| In the past, Microsoft has also enjoyed a cozy relationship with the SCO
| Group, which has sued I.B.M.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/microsofts-odd-mainframe-obsession/
Rivals Say I.B.M. Stifles Competition to Mainframes
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| In a paper commissioned by Microsoft examining the alternative mainframe
| technologies, Walter F. Tichy, a professor of computer science at the
| University of Karlsruhe in Germany, concluded that, as a result of I.B.M.’s
| actions, “customers have been denied the benefits of technological innovation
| and must instead pay above-market prices for I.B.M. mainframe solutions and
| premium wages for a dwindling mainframe workforce.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/technology/companies/23mainframe.html?_r=1&ref=business
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
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.
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| 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
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