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Novell Gives Mainframe Shops Cross-Platform Linux Licenses
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
If there is anything that has been true in the past four decades of computing, it is that if you pay for a high-end, high-cost mainframe platform, you need a lot of hand-holding that is not easy to quantify but which nonetheless has great economic value. In the heyday on mainframes back in the 1960s and 1970s, customers who bought what were then outrageously expensive mainframes even got custom programming and on-site service support from the major mainframe suppliers, and IBM was well known for using its vast army of programmers and engineers to get account control through attention. READ MORE >
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Top Stories from Around the Web
(The Inquirer) It's sort of like giving steroids to King Kong. IBM's latest mainframe server, the z9, is built to be twice as powerful as the previous big gorilla, the eServer zSeries Model z990. The new million-dollar mainframe is more than muscle though. Its features include system-wide data encryption and enhanced virtualization capabilities. READ MORE >
(Computerworld) Security gets top billing in the new IBM z9 blockbuster. Big Blue smartly puts emphasis on the protection of data shared with supply chain partners and remote sites. The latest big iron from IBM was also designed to smoothly operate in heterogeneous environments and manage other platforms, including those from Sun and H-P. READ MORE >
(Enterprise Systems) IBM has loaded up its new mainframe operating system, z/OS, with some great features, and is eagerly awaiting the upgrade parade from its grateful installed base of customers. But it's not quite automatic. There are more than a few who will continue with the old MVS, much to Big Blue's dismay. READ MORE >
(TechNewsWorld) IBM's chief architect of zSeries software, Jim Porell, says IBM intends to "change the economics for execution of applications" with the new z9 mainframes. This is explained as taking the applications to the data rather than the other way around. Doing so, Porell says, will simplify corporate and compliance needs. READ MORE >
(LinuxPlanet) IBM credits the emergence of Linux clusters on z/OS with putting much needed wind into the mainframe sails (and sales). At a press conference last week, Big Blue brass tossed nuggets to the press such as Linux cluster are responsible for 25 percent of recent sales in mainframe capacity and that IBM has sold more mainframe capacity during the past four years than during the previous 40. READ MORE >
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Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings
August 8-11 -- San Francisco - The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo focuses on Linux and Open Source solutions. This bi-annual event brings together the industry's brain trust and those eager to gain the technical and enterprise know-how by hearing real life stories of execution and implementation. Keynote speakers include: Steve Mills, IBM's senior vice president of software; Mark H. Webbink, deputy general counsel and secretary at Red Hat; Martin Fink, HP's vice president of Linux; and Charles Phillips, president of Oracle. LEARN MORE >
August 16 -- An IBM-hosted Web cast for intermediate and advanced level system analysts and system programmers will examine the latest advancements in CICS performance management. The focal point will be IBM's Tivoli OMEGAMON XE systems management product suite. This is the first major OMEGAMON release since the acquisition of Candle. Product improvements that are covered in this session include application bottleneck analysis, log-stream and storage analysis, kill command; and TCP/IP subroutine management. The Web cast begins at 11 a.m. EST. LEARN MORE >
August 16-17 -- Chicago - This free two-day technical seminar focuses on deploying Web-based applications. Topics include writing and testing Java-based applications, integrating those apps with existing applications on your host machine, gaining continuous access to critical business information, and data management. Central to this discussion is IBM's IMS Version 9 database management system. LEARN MORE >
August 25 -- A Web cast titled "Business Process Management for zSeries" will provide insights into organized systems that allow management to examine and enhance business processes such as handling sales inquiries, processing orders, manufacturing, packing, and shipping products, as well as supporting both the products and customers. It is designed for IT managers and systems architects with basic technical skills. The Web cast begins at 11 a.m. EST. The speaker is Bart Lautenbach, director of WebSphere Process Integration. LEARN MORE >
September 17-22 -- San Francisco - This year the Oracle OpenWorld conference incorporates the PeopleSoft Connect conference and includes content for PeopleSoft Enterprise, J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne and J.D. Edwards World customers. Attendees will hear about Oracle's vision and strategy for our combined companies and discuss the developments in Oracle applications and technology with the experts who create the solutions. The conference will be held at the Moscone Center. LEARN MORE >
September 19-23 -- San Francisco - IBM's zSeries Expo will include educational sessions on topics such as virtualization technologies, zSeries Application Assist Processors (zAAP), OSA-Express2, SAN for mainframes, CPU capacity issues, Linux, LPARs and peak loads, performance and tuning issues, and WebSphere for z/OS. Keynote speaker Jose Castano, manager of zSeries software strategy, will discuss data serving and OLTP, the integration between Linux for zSeries and z/OS, and the current and future direction of z/VM and z/VSE. LEARN MORE >
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Editors: Dan Burger, Timothy Prickett Morgan, and Hesh Wiener
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