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Contest

• New Mainframe Master Attends High School
• Another reason to skip class
• Mainframe code presents problems?
• Big Iron Poetry

Current Affairs

• Manhattan U.S. Attorney Brings Insider Trading Charges (Updated)
• Press Reports: U.S. Justice Dept. Opens IBM Antitrust Probe
• A Tale of Two Mainframe customers – one growing and one leaving the mainframe

Economics

• Reduce the Number of Servers
• More Price Reductions
• IBM Announces 2Q2009 Earnings
• A Tale of Two Mainframe customers – one growing and one leaving the mainframe
• Who do you trust? RFG? Yes. HP? No
• HP attacking the mainframe? Like a car vs. a truck
• Siemens Getting Out of the Server Business
• CA zIIPs Along
• IBM Announces 3Q2008 Earnings Details
• IBM 3Q2008 Earnings Preview

Events

• Random Mainframe News for Early July, 2009

Future

• IBM to Acquire SPSS
• Turmoil in the Financial Sector
• More Potpourri
• Solaris is coming, Solaris is coming.....to System z
• Introducing the 6th IBM Mainframe Operating System: Solaris?
• What's in a name? Send us your feedback.
• Skills shortage?
• eWeek on Mainframe Vitality
• MASTERS OF THE MAINFRAME!!!!
• Strong Mainframe Growth Continues

History

• Seamus McManus: Beekeeper; Father of Cloud Computing
• A Tale of Two Mainframe customers – one growing and one leaving the mainframe
• Who do you trust? RFG? Yes. HP? No
• Of Hurricaines and Old Haunts
• New York Times: "Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking"
• Will Microsoft Windows be next on System z?
• the greaterIBM connection
• Maximizing the Mainframe
• Core Connectors
• Mainframe code presents problems?

Innovation

• The Mainframe's Future is Analytically Cloud-y
• Random Mainframe News for Early July, 2009
• Think Again
• Who do you trust? RFG? Yes. HP? No
• HP attacking the mainframe? Like a car vs. a truck
• The New Mainframe: The System z10 BC
• OpenSolaris for System z Now Available
• How Mainframe-Like
• More Potpourri
• Today's Potpourri

People

• How Much Do Architects Need to Know About Mainframes?
• U.S. Air Force Mainframer Celebrates 50 Years of Service
• EMC Cofounder Richard Egan Dies
• Share Your Comments on SHARE
• Q&A Teleconference for z/OS Associate Certificate Program
• Come Together
• HP attacking the mainframe? Like a car vs. a truck
• Recession-Proof Mainframe Jobs
• Skills Shortage?
• More Potpourri

Programming

• Java Grown Up with the System z10
• zSummer University in Germany
• No Coder Left Behind
• Mainframe code presents problems?
• Wachovia mini reference at industry analyst SOA on z conference
• more liveblogging: Robert LeBlanc on zSeries SOA
• Questions for the mainframe commmunity: Ruby, RACF?
• EBCDIC -vs- The World
• Automation is Everything, and Nothing
• Open Documents -- Part 3

Systems Technology

• Sun Exits High-End CPU Design
• Paving the On Ramp to the Super Highway Mainframe!
• Dynamic Infrastructure + Mainframe = Smart Planet
• A Tale of Two Mainframe customers – one growing and one leaving the mainframe
• HP attacking the mainframe? Like a car vs. a truck
• Response to Jeff Savit Blog
• Today's Potpourri
• IBM Announces the System z10 for the Next Generation Data Center
• IBM CFO: "Next Generation Mainframe in February"
• Today's Potpourri

Television

• Myth versus Truth