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10th Anniversary of Linux for the Mainframe: Beginning to Today
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| 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Linux
| for the mainframe. Here, Knowledge Center
| contributor Bill Claybrook delves into the
| 10-year history of Linux for the mainframe,
| discussing its first deployments,
| advantages and appropriate workloads, as
| well as its current market outlook, cost of
| ownership and available applications. He
| also offers advice on how you can determine
| if Linux for the mainframe is the right
| choice for your data center's server
| virtualization project.
|
| The year was 1999. It was the beginning of
| Linux for the mainframe. IBM and SUSE
| (which was later acquired by Novell in
| 2004) began working on a version of Linux
| for the mainframe. By 2000, the first
| enterprise-ready, fully supported version
| was available: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
| for S/390. The first large, important
| customer was Telia, a Scandinavian
| telecommunications company. This year,
| 2010, is the 10th anniversary of Linux for
| the mainframe. The value propositions for
| Linux for the mainframe that were important
| in 2000 are still important today.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/10th-Anniversary-of-Linux-for-the-Mainframe-Beginning-to-Today/
IBMâs Open Source Patent Pledge
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| Thereâs been recent interest in IBMâs â500
| patentâ pledge made in 2005 and how it
| applies today. Itâs always important to get
| the facts, and the words of the pledge
| itself are the facts we need.
|
| âThe pledge will benefit any Open Source
| Software. Open Source Software is any
| computer software program whose source code
| is published and available for inspection
| and use by anyone, and is made available
| under a license agreement that permits
| recipients to copy, modify and distribute
| the programâs source code without payment
| of fees or royalties. All licenses
| certified by opensource.org and listed on
| their website as of 01/11/2005 are Open
| Source Software licenses for the purpose of
| this pledge.
|
| âIBM hereby commits not to assert any of
| the 500 U.S. patents listed below, as well
| as all counterparts of these patents issued
| in other countries, against the
| development, use or distribution of Open
| Source Software.â
|
| IBM stands by this 2005 Non-Assertion
| Pledge today as strongly as it did then.
| IBM will not sue for the infringement of
| any of those 500 patents by any Open Source
| Software.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Daniel Frye
| VP, Open Systems Development
| IBM Linux Technology Center
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2010/04/ibm%E2%80%99s-open-source-patent-pledge
IBM Patents Optimization
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| jamie(really) writes "IBM appears to want
| to patent optimizing programs by trial and
| error, which in the history of programming
| has, of course, never been done. Certainly,
| all my optimizations have been the result
| of good planning. Well done IBM for coming
| up with this clever idea. What is claimed
| is: 'A method for developing a computer
| program product, the method comprising:
| evaluating one or more refactoring actions
| to determine a performance attribute;
| associating the performance attribute with
| a refactoring action used in computer code;
| and undoing the refactoring action of the
| computer code based on the performance
| attribute. The method of claim 1 wherein
| the undoing refactoring is performed when
| the performance attribute indicates a
| negative performance effect of the computer
| code.'"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/07/1243237/IBM-Patents-Optimization
Recent:
IBM celebrates a decade of Linux on its System Z mainframe
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| IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) celebrated a decade of
| Linux on its System Z mainframe by recognizing
| the top winners, one of whom is Canadian, of
| the annual Master the Mainframe Contest.
|
| Over the years the number of customers,
| vendors and use cases for running Linux
| alongside z/OS have grown, said Tom Rosamilia,
| general manager for IBM's System Z division,
| during a presentation at the company's
| Poughkeepsie plant and the focal point of much
| of the development and manufacturing of
| mainframes.
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http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=56960
IBM marks 10 years of Linux on SystemZ
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| During celebrations at its Poughkeepsie plant
| of a decade of opening its mainframe to run
| Linux apps, a Canadian student is recognized
| as a winner of the 2009 Master the Mainframe
| Contest. An exec explains why the mainframe is
| âmiddle-agedâ
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http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ibm-marks-10-years-of-linux-on-systemz/140299
IBM Rolls Out New System z Linux Servers
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| IBM on Tuesday debuted new hardware,
| software and services packages for
| enterprise customers that want to
| consolidate and virtualize Linux-based
| data loads on their System z mainframes.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3851896/IBM-Rolls-Out-New-System-z-Linux-Servers.htm
New System z Linux Servers Released by IBM
http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-System-z-Linux-Servers-Released-By-IBM-129255.shtml
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