Clients that sign up for the service are required first to work with Microsoft to develop a migration plan, Houston said. That move led some observers to assume that Microsoft was once again extending standard support for the OS for all customers.
In another sign the mainframe computer is coming back to life, IBM is set to announce today that a customer is using its zSeries machines and Linux for a major consolidation of business applications. With a total of 36 processors running the Linux...
The ASA, however, thought the choice of hardware could have been more appropriate, saying in its adjudication: "The Authority understood.that the measurements for Linux were performed on an IBM zSeries, which was more expensive and did not perform...
Ozzie, speaking at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference for business technology users, described some of the online services Microsoft intends to offer to businesses, including single sign-on and network management.
The system provides single sign-on access for authorised medical staff to various clinical applications such as ward lists and patient medication records. Great Ormond Street Hospital is piloting new software that will speed up access to patient...
The company is developing servers that use Intel's Itanium processors but that can run z/OS, IBM's mainframe operating system, alongside higher-level mainframe software. PSI is not the first company that has tried to muscle in on IBM's mainframe...