March 18, 2020
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I cut my teeth on mainframe computers. My first system administration language wasn’t — as you might guess from my Unix/Linux background — Borrne or C shell, but rather, IBM 360 mainframe Job Control Language (JCL). So, the notion that … Continue reading
September 17, 2013
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On September 17, IBM will announce at LinuxCon 2013 that it will invest $1 billion in new Linux and open-source technologies for its Power Systems servers. This announcement comes 12 years after IBM famously announced that it was backing the … Continue reading
September 7, 2011
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When you think of “Ubuntu Linux,” you probably think of the community Linux distribution and the Linux desktop. That’s great, but Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, also wants you to think of Ubuntu as a server and cloud operating system platform. … Continue reading
June 8, 2010
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How things have changed. Back in March 1991 (PDF), Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one-time editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, said, “I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996.” In 2010, while IBM doesn’t break out its … Continue reading
December 8, 2000
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IBM’s using Linux to deliver e-business on mainframes; may prove to be competition for Sun. Yesterday, IBM took a bite out of Sun by replacing Scandinavia’s biggest telecomm and ISP Telia’s Sun Web-hosting servers with a single IBM mainframe S/390 … Continue reading