IBM Happenings: September 2005
The month of September was really busy for IBM, with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services and corporate initiatives. The announcements made by the company during the month are listed below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for September 2005 New software provides […]
Just Enough Is Good Enough
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has decided that all state departments and organizations should use open standards for their documents. Specifically, the open standard to be backed by the Commonwealth is OpenDocument. The OpenDocument standard, developed by OASIS, is short for the "OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications". It is a file format for saving […]
IBM Happenings: August 2005
The month of August is slow in some parts of the world but for IBM, it was anything but slow. The announcements made by the company during the month are listed below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for August 2005 IBM to acquire DWL […]
The Main Mainframe Blog
The folks at IBM tell me that readership at the Mainframe Blog is growing. This is not surprising. There are a lot of us "old timers" out there that have fond memories and many people around the world who are using, developing, extending, exploiting, and loving mainframes. You might say it is somewhat of a […]
Favorite Mainframes
We all have our favorite mainframes. For many it will surely be the new and sophisticated mainframe Z9. For me there are four mainframes that standout among my memories. First was the GE 225 at Lehigh University where I was an electrical engineering student (1963-1967). The programming language used was called WIZ and it was […]
