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Comment It didn't quite happen as he predicted and quickly VB prevailed over C++ but the 1980s industry heavyweights like Borland, Lotus Development, WordPerfect, or even IBM with OS/2 weren't in the end a match for Bill Gates. [17 Jul 2008]
Introduction to HiperDispatch Management Mode with z10
White Paper HiperDispatch was introduced with IBM's z10 server, and is available (via PTFs) on z/OS V1R7, z/OS V1R8, and z/OS V1R9. To achieve these design objectives, HiperDispatch implemented new designs within z/OS and PR/SM, and implemented a regular... [17 Jul 2008]
Siebel 8 CRM on System x3850, Red Hat Linux and DS4700
White Paper The objective of this benchmark was to demonstrate Siebel 8 full compatibility with Linux and quantify Siebel 8 performance on an IBM System x3850 server running the Linux OS and establish competitive benchmark results. [11 Jul 2008]
Yapi Kredi Bank Upgrades Its Systems to Pave the Way for E-Business
White Paper They migrated from outdated IBM OS/390 V2.8 operating system to IBM z/OS V1.4 in one stage, rather than in the two stages, which is typically recommended. To support these channels, the bank's IT division regularly develops capacity plans and... [03 Jul 2008]
Amelia Island Plantation Takes a Vacation from Server Proliferation
White Paper Thanks to a server consolidation, Amelia Island Plantation's IT team can utilize vital IBM eServer xSeries Intel processor-based servers while taking advantage of familiar OS/400 management tools and production environments. [03 Jul 2008]
Configuring and Clustering IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide a step-by-step description of how to configure IBM WebSphere Portal Server Enable for z/OS V6 in a cluster. It explains how to configure a WebSphere Network Deployment cell and cluster for WebSphere... [02 Jul 2008]
SAP Transaction Banking: IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS Large Database Measurements
White Paper Posting has much higher data base I/Os. Not only does it provide significantly more function for banks, it now exploits functions such as Unicode and SAP's NetWeaver. These measurements, as well as the previous TRBK measurements, show that both the... [02 Jul 2008]
Photos: Bill Gates through the ages
Photo Gates launched the new OS at Microsoft's Redmond campus. Shortly after this picture was taken the company signed a major contract with IBM to write software for a new line of computers. Gates and Allen pose by PCs in 1981. [20 Jun 2008]
Managing Convergence for Enhanced Customer Service
White Paper These included partners, CRM systems, a repayment mortgage application hosted on an IBM OS/390 and more. Entenial Direct had first to deliver a single platform for customers combining mortgages and traditional banking activities across the company... [31 May 2008]
Setting Up a Sub-Capacity SAS License
White Paper To accommodate this model, SAS Institute offers sub-capacity pricing for qualified customers who are upgrading their SAS software or are adding SAS workload to a large IBM mainframe (z/OS). In addition, this paper tells how to find that information... [31 May 2008]
How to Choose a Mobile Platform: Six Mobile Development Technologies Compared
White Paper One will consider very different factors when one develops applications for the Pocket PC versus the Palm OS, even though their target markets are nearly the same. When it comes to choosing the target platform and technology for the mobile project... [09 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News X is for OS X The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised computers, has been estimated to control between one million and five million machines, which one researcher said makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer. [07 May 2008]
IBM SAP Technical Brief: Tuning SAP / DB2 / zSeries
White Paper When doing performance monitoring for SAP on DB2 for OS/390, there are many different layers (SAP BASIS, SAP functional, DB, OS, network) and a variety of tools involved. The goal of the paper is that each can find a part of the material that is... [01 May 2008]
Optimizing WebSphere for z/OS Performance
White Paper Many customers are beginning to WEB enable legacy user applications that require access to their enterprise data residing on z/OS Sysplex (datasharing) environments. Enabling these applications using JAVA/J2EE components provides unparalleled... [01 May 2008]
DB2 for z/OS Universal JDBC Driver Samples
White Paper The DB2 Universal Driver provides the following types of connectivity: Type2, Type4, and Type4-XA. It provides them in two forms the DriverManager and the DataSource. This paper describes lists the samples and the supplied scripts and shows the... [01 May 2008]
