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Mid January, 2009, Mainframe Potpourri
There's so much mainframe-related news that it's already time to post another "Potpourri."
- BMC periodically conducts a rather large survey of mainframe customers, and you can learn about the survey results in this webcast. Words like "renaissance" and "growth" pepper their description, so that's a big hint about what their survey found.
- Kookmin Bank, Korea's largest bank, announced it is adopting the IBM System z10 as the platform for its next generation core banking application set. KB will become one of the largest mainframe installations in Asia. (Full disclosure: I spent a lot of time working with the KB team in this effort.) Korean Air also signs a 10 year contract which includes System z.
- The State of Oklahoma is handling record numbers of unemployment claims, unfortunately. While there are problems scaling offices and people to meet the demand, there are no problems whatsoever scaling their mainframe. Pennsylvania similarly has no problems scaling their mainframe. Scalability limits can cause severe economic hardship, as many bankrupt businesses know too well. Mainframes scale up (and down) to handle highly variable business demand with aplomb.
- Four students are the first Mainframe Scholarship Fund winners. Congratulations to Adam, Sandeep, Scott, and Bob.
- Headhunters and prospective employeers are trying to raid distressed Satyam Computer Services and secure its best talent. Top of the list: "mainframe developers with 2-8 years of experience."
- Like many other employers in these troubled economic times, Attachmate has had to lay off 10% of its workers.
- IBM Research announced a tremendous breakthrough in magnetic resonance microscopy, which some are saying ranks with the invention of the optical microscope. This innovation should lead to major advancements in medicine, biology, and many other fields, including computer engineering and server design. In related news, in 2008 IBM once again received more U.S. patents than any other company.
- Need some more fashionable t-shirts?
- I have no idea what this video means:
This one I understand a little better:
And this fellow found his perfect mate:
| by Timothy Sipples | January 14, 2009 Permalink |
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IBM mainframe computer systems due to the confluence of such events as; high energy costs, consolidation via Linux on System z, performance of the z10, the move back toward centralization of IT, emergence of SOA, traditional mainframe strengths, etc. The z10 EC announced in Feb. 2008 provided a considerable boost as demonstrated by the whopping 49 percent increase of aggregate MIPS shipments in the just announced Q3 results.
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