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    An Ode to Software Licensing
    August 2, 2010
    I'll have some new zEnterprise details to share soon. In the meantime, I stumbled across this YouTube video which is at least mildly entertaining. (Ignore the advertisements at the end.) While few people were paying attention, software licensing has become...

    First Major Press Stories on IBM's New Mainframe
    July 22, 2010
    Not too many details yet, but there are now stories in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major outlets. From the Journal: Martin Kennedy, a managing director at Citigroup who oversees the company's 50 mainframes, says...

    New Mainframe Announcement This Week!
    July 20, 2010
    IBM's Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge discussed IBM's 2Q2010 earnings and said this: In the third quarter, we'll have Power7 across our entire UNIX product line, and will introduce and ship our next generation mainframe solution. [....] This week IBM...

    News Roundup for Very Early July, 2010
    July 2, 2010
    Here are some of the random bits of mainframe-related news, in no particular order, that merit some editorial comments: Comepay, a Russian payment kiosk provider, becomes the latest company to purchase their first IBM mainframe (a new System z10). IBM's...

    Migrate from Mainframe? To What?
    July 1, 2010
    Merv Adrian from Clabby Analytics challenges Gartner (in particular) in a very pointed article on Gartner's (sometime) mainframe migration advice and their apparent commercial conflicts. Adrian writes: Gartner, the industry?s preeminent information technology (IT) research and analysis firm, has published...




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