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Categories
- Fun Fact: zEnterprise Alone = Triple Oracle
- The PC Market is Shrinking Fast
- It's Time to (Mostly) Retire Historical Mainframe Photos
- STASH: A "Skunkworks" Project for Secure Clients?
- CIOs All Agree: Mainframes Are More Strategic Than Themselves
- Free Stuff for Your Mainframe: 2013 Edition
- NASDAQ Needs a Mainframe
- Explosion of New Mainframe Software
- Class Reunion: "What is a Mainframe?"
- New WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile
- Windows Server 2008 and Itanium: No, Obviously Not Better
- Yet Another Reason to Like COBOL
- 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
- Open Documents
- The Mainframe Blog Kindly Redirects You
- It's Time to (Mostly) Retire Historical Mainframe Photos
- Another zEnterprise Blog to Add to Your Bookmarks/Favorites
- More Insight into IBM's New z114
- The Register: "Reconsider the Mainframe"
- Bitcoin Needs a Mainframe
- Unplanned 3 Hour Global Mainframe Outage Scheduled
- RBS NatWest May Need a Mainframe Operator
- Sweden's Tieto Needs a Mainframe
- RIM Needed a Mainframe
- Come On, Irene: Tips for Disaster Preparation
- Amazon and Microsoft Need Mainframes
- Goldman Sachs Needs a Mainframe
- Mainframe Reports that Customs Clearing Agency Needs a Mainframe
- Travelodge Needs a Mainframe (Updated)
- About "(Blank) Needs a Mainframe"
- U.S. Airways (Now United Airlines) Needs a Mainframe
- Sony Needs a Mainframe (Update: Starbucks Singapore, Too)
- Maybe It's Time for More Mainframe Solutions
Cloud Computing
- Server Hardware Trends: A Commodity Market Plus IBM
- IBM Announces the OpenPOWER Consortium
- IBM Acquiring CSL International
- Musings on the Evolution of the Server Market
- Explosion of New Mainframe Software
- IBM PureSystems: Simple Is Good
- Learning z/OS the Cloud(y) Way
- Did the U.S. Government Kill Cloud Computing Over 50 Years Ago?
- Brief News Roundup for Mid-August, 2011
- Candidate for Lamest Excuse Not to Share Machines
- Amazon and Microsoft Need Mainframes
- New Mainframe Master Attends High School
- Another reason to skip class
- Mainframe code presents problems?
- Big Iron Poetry
- Two Big Deals in the Mobile World
- U.S. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Infosys
- BMC to Sell Itself to a Private Equity Consortium
- Up is the New Down
- IBM Buys Cúram Software Ltd.
- RIM Needed a Mainframe
- Mainframe Cases Closed in Europe
- HP's Board Ousted CEO, Whitman Named (Updated)
- What IDC Didn't Say: 2Q2011 Worldwide Server Sales
- Come On, Irene: Tips for Disaster Preparation
- HP Announces Big Restructuring: What Does It Mean?
- Brief News Roundup for Mid-August, 2011
- IBM Announces 2Q2011 Earnings: Mainframe Up Big Again
- More Itanium Meltdown News: HP Sues Oracle
- Microsoft Overpays for Skype?
- Maybe It's Time for More Mainframe Solutions
- Hey, Gartner: You Blew It
- IBM Helping HP Itanium Customers and Application Vendors
- Microsoft Sunsets Zune...and the Mainframe Migration Alliance
- Welcome, Senegal Customs!
Economics
- Free Stuff for Your Mainframe: 2013 Edition
- Server Hardware Trends: A Commodity Market Plus IBM
- The Reality of "Rehosting"
- RBS NatWest May Need a Mainframe Operator
- New Mainframe Thinking at Canada's Department of National Defence
- My Mainframe-Related Pet Peeves
- IT Costs Matter Even More to Smaller Businesses
- Candidate for Lamest Excuse Not to Share Machines
- Goldman Sachs Needs a Mainframe
- More Insight into IBM's New z114
- IBM Announces 2Q2011 Earnings: Mainframe Up Big Again
- Introducing the zEnterprise 114 (Updated)
- The Register: "Reconsider the Mainframe"
- Reports of Oracle's New Hardware Maintenance Terms
- Microsoft Overpays for Skype?
- Bypassing Microsoft, Again?
- IBM Announces 1Q2011 Earnings: Mainframe Up Big Again
- Did Forbes Get the Math Wrong?
- IBM Announces 4Q2010 Earnings: Mainframe Up Big
- An Ode to Software Licensing
- Two, ... Two, ... Two Conferences in One
- Unplanned 3 Hour Global Mainframe Outage Scheduled
- Miami, October 3-7, 2011: Be There
- Mid-January 2010 Mainframe Potpourri
- Random Mainframe News for Early July, 2009
- Two Big Deals in the Mobile World
- Server Hardware Trends: A Commodity Market Plus IBM
- IBM Announces 2Q2013 Earnings: zEnterprise Even Better
- IBM Acquiring CSL International
- BMC to Sell Itself to a Private Equity Consortium
- Fun Fact: zEnterprise Alone = Triple Oracle
- IBM Announces 1Q2013 Earnings: zEnterprise Shines
- Oracle Announces Fiscal 3Q2013 Earnings: Hardware Imploding
- IBM Reports 4Q2012 Earnings: Full Speed Ahead
- IBM Announces 2Q2012 Earnings: Mainframe Sales OK
- RBS NatWest May Need a Mainframe Operator
- NASDAQ Needs a Mainframe
- Oracle's Hardware Sales Down Sharply Again
- My Mainframe-Related Pet Peeves
- IBM Announces 4Q2011 Earnings
- Oracle Had a Rough Quarter
- European Commission Satisfied with IBM's Practices
- Japan's NTT Data Is Rock Solid with zEnterprise
- An Update on the Relative Value of IBM v. Microsoft
- IBM Passes Microsoft in Market Capitalization
- The Mainframe Blog Kindly Redirects You
- How to Preserve and to Access Information for Over 1 Million Years
- Big Data, Big Tape
- Mainframe Computing: What Will the Future Hold?
- Happy New Mainframe Day! Introducing the zEnterprise EC12
- Next Generation zEnterprise: Smart, Secure, Efficient
- STASH: A "Skunkworks" Project for Secure Clients?
- Up is the New Down
- 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years
- Google Acquiring Motorola Mobility: Hardware Matters
- A Future Mainframer
- 2011: IBM's Centennial(ish) Year
- Migrate from Mainframe? To What?
- 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?
History
- The Mainframe Blog Kindly Redirects You
- HP to Retire OpenVMS as Early as 2020
- Manufacturer in Texas Still Relies on their IBM 402
- The PC Market is Shrinking Fast
- IBM Mainframe Computing at AT&T in 1973
- Sad Day: Unisys Abandons Its Mainframe Processors
- Oracle's Hardware Sales Down Sharply Again
- HP Lays an Ostrich Egg During Turkey Week
- Did the U.S. Government Kill Cloud Computing Over 50 Years Ago?
- Windows Server 2008 and Itanium: No, Obviously Not Better
- IBM Centennial Film: "They Were There"
- HP Itanium's Ignominious Demise (Updated)
- IBM's Birthday: "100x100"
- 2011: IBM's Centennial(ish) Year
- 50 Years Ago: The IBM 1401
- 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"
- Canonical (Ubuntu) Needs a Mainframe (and zBC12 Post #3)
- Happy New Mainframe Day! Introducing the zBC12 (Post #1)
- Mainframe Computing: What Will the Future Hold?
- Cool Chips: "IBM's Mainframe Engine Makes Each Clock Count"
- Happy New Mainframe Day! Introducing the zEnterprise EC12
- Next Generation zEnterprise: Smart, Secure, Efficient
- Explosion of New Mainframe Software
- STASH: A "Skunkworks" Project for Secure Clients?
- IBM PureSystems: Simple Is Good
- New WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile
- 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years
- Japan's NTT Data Is Rock Solid with zEnterprise
- Introducing the zEnterprise 114 (Updated)
- IBM Centennial Film: "They Were There"
- "Watson": Mankind's Triumph
- IBM's Birthday: "100x100"
- A Trio of New Videos
- The World's Fastest Microprocessor
- First Major Press Stories on IBM's New Mainframe
- New Mainframe Announcement This Week!
- Two, ... Two, ... Two Conferences in One
- Free Stuff for Your Mainframe: 2013 Edition
- IBM Announces the OpenPOWER Consortium
- Canonical (Ubuntu) Needs a Mainframe (and zBC12 Post #3)
- Manufacturer in Texas Still Relies on their IBM 402
- It's Time to (Mostly) Retire Historical Mainframe Photos
- CIOs All Agree: Mainframes Are More Strategic Than Themselves
- Myth versus Truth
- U.S. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Infosys
- New Mainframe Thinking at Canada's Department of National Defence
- Forbes: "Kids See a Future in Mainframes"
- About Former IBM CEO John R. Opel
- In Memoriam: Steve Jobs
- HP's Board Ousted CEO, Whitman Named (Updated)
- Brief News Roundup for Mid-August, 2011
- A Century for IBM, Half a Century for Bob
- Oklahoma Considering IT Consolidation
- A Future Mainframer
- Introducing the System z Job Board
- Home Again, At Last
- 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
Security
- New Security Revelations: Governments Spying More than Expected
- Canonical (Ubuntu) Needs a Mainframe: An Elaboration
- Canonical (Ubuntu) Needs a Mainframe (and zBC12 Post #3)
- Apple Needs a Mainframe
- Bitcoin Needs a Mainframe
- LinkedIn Needs a Mainframe
- EMC VMware Needs a Mainframe
- STASH: A "Skunkworks" Project for Secure Clients?
- Utah Department of Health Needs a Mainframe
- My Mainframe-Related Pet Peeves
- Sony Still Needs a Mainframe
- Foxconn Needs a Mainframe
- Verisign Needs a Mainframe
- 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years
- SK Communications Needs a Mainframe
- Mitsubishi Needs a Mainframe (Updated)
- Travelodge Needs a Mainframe (Updated)
- About "(Blank) Needs a Mainframe"
- U.S. Airways (Now United Airlines) Needs a Mainframe
- EMC/RSA "SecurID" Compromised, Lockheed Martin Hacked
- Server Hardware Trends: A Commodity Market Plus IBM
- IBM Announces the OpenPOWER Consortium
- Happy New Mainframe Day! Introducing the zBC12 (Post #1)
- HP to Retire OpenVMS as Early as 2020
- Sad Day: Unisys Abandons Its Mainframe Processors
- Cool Chips: "IBM's Mainframe Engine Makes Each Clock Count"
- Happy New Mainframe Day! Introducing the zEnterprise EC12
- Musings on the Evolution of the Server Market
- Oracle Loses Court Case v. HP, Will Appeal
- IBM PureSystems: Simple Is Good
- Oracle's Hardware Sales Down Sharply Again
- Strange Happenings in the PC Market
- Mainframe Mobile Apps
- HP Lays an Ostrich Egg During Turkey Week
- zEnterprise and SAP: Perfect Together
- Google Acquiring Motorola Mobility: Hardware Matters
- Introducing the zEnterprise 114 (Updated)
- More Itanium Meltdown News: HP Sues Oracle
- Reports of Oracle's New Hardware Maintenance Terms
- Hey, Gartner: You Blew It
- Two Big Deals in the Mobile World
- Verisign Needs a Mainframe
- Strange Happenings in the PC Market
- New WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile
- Japan's NTT Data Is Rock Solid with zEnterprise
- Not-So-Radical-Thought: Cloud Computing is Often More Secure
- Free Stuff for Your Mainframe: 2013 Edition
- Significant Changes in the z/OS Release Schedule
- Learning z/OS the Cloud(y) Way
- New WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile
- Japan's NTT Data Is Rock Solid with zEnterprise
- Welcome, Senegal Customs!
- z - that's a cloud, right? well if a Vblock is.
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