Mid-November, 2008, Potpourri
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Mid-November, 2008, Potpourri
- As Jim Porell mentioned, HP cannot help but misrepresent a major industry analyst. Robert Frances Group took the rare step of issuing a press release to dispute HP's recent claims about RFG's views. InformationWeek has more. Memo to HP: if you want to earn the respect and trust of customers, don't fib.
- At CA World this week in Las Vegas, CA announced "Mainframe 2.0," a company-wide initiative to simplify CA's governance, management, and security tools for the mainframe. Highlights include reductions in skills and training requirements (including initial learning curves), uniform Web browser-based access, increased tools intelligence to reduce complexity, adoption of IBM's standard software installation processes (SMP/E), and new "turnkey" services. Mainframe tools account for 60 percent of CA's revenues, and CA expects that percentage to grow.
- On the off chance there was any ambiguity, IBM says it's fine to run OpenSolaris for System z on IFL processors.
- IBM announced WebSphere Dashboard Framework V6.1 for z/OS which provides software to deliver executive-style Web dashboards to, well, executives, team leaders, project leaders, etc. These dashboards can provide real-time and near real-time business and operational status information to help people make better decisions. It's a much better approach for collaboration than trying to keep everyone's spreadsheets and charts in sync. And you can provide those dashboards with the highest service qualities while exploiting zAAPs.
- IBM also announced a version of the Apache HTTP server, the IBM HTTP Server V7.0 for z/OS, as a no extra charge z/OS feature. Previously this new HTTP Server was only available as part of WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. V5.3 of the HTTP Server is still available, still supported, and still included as a base z/OS feature.
- IBM plans to buy Transitive Corporation.
- Sun Microsystems is laying off another 5,000 to 6,000 workers, about 18 percent of its global workforce.
- Region Calabria, Italy, has a new System z-based solution to serve their 2 million citizens, replacing a less reliable and more costly distributed solution. Congratulazioni! Meanwhile, Philippine Airlines improves its business resiliency with an expanded System z installation and improved storage.
- At 11:00 a.m. New York time on November 26, 2008, you can join the "Cloud Computing on System z" teleconference. A replay will also be available.
| by Timothy Sipples | November 19, 2008 Permalink |
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