IBM upgrades mainframe OS
News IBM on Monday will release z/OS, its z900 mainframe operating system upgraded to take advantage of the new model's 64bit design. Z/OS is a major overhaul of the basic software that runs the mainframe, a traditional computing design with a decades...
[March 26, 2001, 9:07]
IBM's T-Rex mainframe set to roar
News IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe on Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction.
[May 12, 2003, 9:36]
IBM and SAP back Linux on mainframe
News IBM and corporate software powerhouse SAP have made plans to bring SAP's software to Big Blue mainframes running Linux. The companies plan to announce the deal Thursday at the CeBIT trade show here, where SAP is headquartered.
[March 22, 2001, 10:46]
IBM unmuzzles low-end 'Raptor' mainframe
News IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing. This gives IBM a cheaper mainframe to sell to new...
[February 18, 2002, 9:19]
Linux on mainframes: Phase two
News Out with the new, in with the old. In an inversion of the usually cutting-edge world of Linux, many of the announcements coming out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week will have a retro flavour, as companies that specialise in software...
[January 28, 2002, 12:55]
WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS
White Papers There are many factors that influence the performance of WebSphere Portal in the z/OS environment. The objective of this performance study was to determine which tuning parameters and WebSphere Portal workload characteristics relate to performance.
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
IBM to upgrade mainframe features
News IBM will announce upgrades to its mainframe computer on Friday, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. The upgrades improve some of the features of the z900 mainframe, introduced a year ago, though it leaves the heart of...
[October 19, 2001, 10:02]
Microsoft touts Linux 'facts'
Talkback Wintel versus Mainframe? Of course it'll cost less. When you're dropping a million on new mainframe hardware (ram, drives, virtualization software), no amount of Windows licenses & MCSE's can overcome that kind of cost on a single, dual processor...
[January 7, 2004, 15:53]
Advertising watchdog reprimands Microsoft over 'facts'
News Microsoft recently launched a 'Get the Facts' ad campaign telling consumers Linux isn't cheaper than Windows. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) thinks they should get the facts too -- but it's warned Microsoft to make sure its are straight...
[August 25, 2004, 16:25]
South American bank switches to Linux
News Venezuela's Banco Mercantil has become one of the world's first major financial institutions to port its back-end infrastructure to Linux, the open source operating operating system that is built by volunteer programmers around the world...
[May 3, 2001, 16:06]
IBM hits mark in gloomy week for techs
News IBM on Wednesday gave Wall Street some desperately needed good news, meeting first-quarter expectations. The company earned $1.75bn, or 98 cents a share, compared with $1.52bn and 83 cents per share in the same period a year earlier.
[April 19, 2001, 11:35]
Palmisano: Big Blue means business
News Sam Palmisano means business about e-business. IBM's president and chief operating officer -- and the heir apparent to chief executive Lou Gerstner -- is one of IBM's biggest Linux advocates, placing the alternative flavour of the Unix operating...
[December 18, 2000, 9:02]
Linux takes to the sky
News Korean Air said last week that it has moved its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe at its Seoul headquarters. The 3,000 pilots and flight crew members will query the mainframe system to...
[July 24, 2001, 12:28]
Next Linux beta imminent, says Torvalds
News Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming 2.6 version of the Linux operating system in June, the Linux leader said a test version could come as soon as next week. I'm planning on starting the so-called 'pre-2.6' series in...
[July 3, 2003, 9:17]
Torvalds wraps up work on Linux core
News Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way to start work on the long-anticipated 2.6 kernel. Torvalds, who founded the Linux kernel project in the early 1990s, on Thursday finalised the...
[July 11, 2003, 12:17]
IBM builds on-demand power into new hardware
News IBM said on Thursday it was shipping its new mainframe and servers, including its top-end p690 Unix server, a system the company claims will be 65 percent faster than its predecessor and which will let customers rent more computing power as needed.
[June 19, 2003, 10:28]
IBM's mainframe makeover
News For the past several years, IBM has transferred the technology inside its mainframes to beef up its other server lines. Now the process is going the other way. The computing giant has kicked off a project to dramatically change the underlying...
[May 22, 2002, 9:38]
Linux firms join forces on security
News A consortium including Mandrakesoft, the Paris-based Linux seller that recently exited bankruptcy protection, has won a three-year contract worth €7m to improve Linux security. Mandrakesoft, joined by Bertin Technologies, Surlog, Jaluna and Oppida...
[September 24, 2004, 8:45]
