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IBM plans big hardware upgrade next year
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| IBM has tried to cut user costs in the current
| mainframe line by using specialty processing
| engines, such the Linux IFL processor.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139482/IBM_plans_big_hardware_upgrade_next_year
Recent:
Young Developers Get Old Mainframersâ Jobs
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| Last spring one of my co-workers went to
| college campuses to recruit prospective
| âyoung mainframers.â
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| Young mainframers? Isnât that an oxymoron?
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| My co-worker, Tim, explained that our
| company, a major software vendor, is
| seeing its mainframe workforce rapidly
| approaching the age of retirement. Tim
| said IBM and most other firms whose
| businesses depend on mainframes are also
| dealing with this industry-wide problem.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3842721/Young-Developers-Get-Old-Mainframers-Jobs.htm
Mainframe emulator goes commercial
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| While CentOS and Debian Linuxes have supported the z
| implementation of the Linux kernel, the mainframe
| variants of Linux from Red Hat and Novell are what
| nearly all mainframe shops use, and this code is
| available for free even if the installation and
| technical support for it is not.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/25/turbohercules_goes_commercial/
Mainframe shops gush over big iron
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| What can be said is that by corralling some mainframe
| engines, slashing their prices, and letting them run Linux
| instances or speed up Java or DB2 workloads, IBM has been
| able to keep the installed base of mainframe processing
| power, as measured in MIPS, growing - even as it has its
| ups and downs each quarter. And the downs have been
| especially sharp since the economic meltdown kicked in a
| year ago.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/17/idc_ca_mainframe_surveys/
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