HP, Intel, and Oracle Gang Up on IBM Mainframes
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As part of the festivities at the Oracle OpenWorld customer event in San Francisco last week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it was teaming up with chip maker Intel and Oracle, which has the most popular relational database on Unix servers and which also has middleware and many different application software suites, to try to persuade IBM mainframe shops that it is now time to move to new architectures and new applications. READ MORE >

Top Mainframe Stories and Vendor Announcements

(CNN) If you never believed the mainframe was on its way out, can you, therefore, believe it is making a comeback? I would say anytime the mainframe gets some good press in the mainstream media, it's worth taking note. If nothing else, it certainly is good for the image. READ MORE >

(Enterprise Systems) Of course, there are those who remain convinced the mainframe is "still sick, if not dying." Money, in this case IBM's asking for too much of it, is the root of this evil. At least that's the contention of this customer that runs "traditional" workloads. READ MORE >

(Micro Focus) Application modernization--specifically taking business logic from COBOL applications and making it available to Microsoft's .NET development framework--is a major undertaking. Don't kid yourself about that. However, if you need to push down that road, there are software options to consider. READ MORE >

(SDS) Vigilant is a relative word. It's fair to ask how vigilant are you in monitoring your z/OS network? Are you on top of response times, file transfers, FTP users, and traffic volume? Documentation software can dial up your vigilance. READ MORE >

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

November 6-8 -- San Jose, California - The ECM West Conference and is an enterprise content and document management event showcasing the technologies and solutions that help align content and business processes. It focuses on data capture, storage, and management, with educational tracks on issues ranging from compliance and standards to information integration and accessibility. LEARN MORE >

November 28-December 1 -- Las Vegas, Nevada - Business continuity, disaster recovery, virtualization directions and technologies, server and storage consolidation trends, and how to run an effective 24x7 operation are in the spotlight at - these are the big four data concerns identified in Gartner's annual data center survey and will be headlining the agenda at the 25th Annual Gartner Data Center Conference. LEARN MORE >

December 3-8 -- Reno, Nevada - Performance and capacity management for enterprise computing systems is the focus for CMG2006 hosted by the Association of Systems Management Professionals. Session topics include software performance engineering, stress/load testing, benchmarking, BPM, BAM, and new technologies such as service-oriented architecture, and Web services. Specialized content is also provided for operating systems that include z/OS, Linux, Unix, and Windows. LEARN MORE >