IBM Wednesday started pasting smiley faces on the cloud and telling fraidy-cat companies it’s okay to go sky diving ’cause it’s got a Big Blue safety net that’ll provide the control and security users want. They don’t have to swipe a credit card, cross their fingers and trust that won’t get lost in an Amazon [...]
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Mainframe Users Everywhere Weep IBM’s mainframe monopoly marches on unscathed apparently but for the legal bills. The latest threat to its hegemony – zPrime, Neon Enterprise Software’s seemingly legitimate attempt to move billions of dollars worth of mainframe workloads to IBM’s free-for-the-using specialty mainframe processors – a scheme based on IBM’s alleged failure to forbid [...]
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Stepping on Dell’s cloud announcement Thursday, IBM said it’s going into the public cloud business sure that it can trump Amazon because it owns the Pied Piper’s flute that enchants business. IBM needs to step on the gas if it’s going to produce $7 billion-a-year in cloud revenues by 2015 like it promised. Its new [...]
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Data Base solutions AG (DBS) in Switzerland calculates that European mainframe sites pay IBM 500 million euros – that’s $650 million – more than they have to every year because of a gimmick that has ironically been dubbed IBM’s “generosity factor.” That, it figures, is two euros or $2.70 out of the pocket of every [...]
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IBM wants its mainframe users to install a patch that will let IBM peer into the Specialty Processors (SPs) they have on their machines so it can see what they’re using the widgets for. And the only reason that Big Blue would want to do that is if it thinks it may lose the antitrust [...]
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In a surprise-to-many move, IBM, which always seemed to have more skin in the Java game than Sun, the technology’s nominal creator, has abandoned Harmony, the independent, breakaway, duplicative and competitive Apache Software Foundation open source Java project, to back Oracle, Java’s new owner, and OpenJDK, a peace-in-our-time move that looks like it leaves Google [...]
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Greenplum, now that it’s part of EMC, has decided to go down the same hardware appliance road as competitors Oracle with its highly touted Sun-based Exadata machine and IBM with its new soon-to-be acquisition Netezza. Greenplum, however, thinks it’s got both of them beat dead to rights. Netezza, it says, is dependent on proprietary hardware [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara Monday, July 26, 2010 – The European Commission said this morning that has opened not one but two formal investigations of IBM and its mainframe business on the suspicion that Big Blue has abused its dominant position. IBM is already under investigation by the Justice Department for the same thing and the [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara IBM has the Justice Department crawling over its mainframe business, complaints of monopoly maintenance going to the European Commission and users chaffing under its punitive licensing fees. So IBM has reinvented the mainframe, apparently reducing the behemoth to a blade. Sources say it’s ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core [...]
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The name-calling, bitch-slapping, suit-countersuit fight between IBM and Neon Enterprise Software hasn’t deterred the uppity Texas ISV from trying to crack IBM’s mainframe monopoly. On Tuesday it wheeled out a new release of zPrime, the software that IBM has declared contraband, the stuff that slashes the cost of mainframe computing by offloading massive amounts of [...]
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