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- From Windows to Unix: a mental journey
- Changing from Windows to Unix isn't so much about changing technology as it is about changing your thinking. From the 1920s through the wintel detour data processing has evolved in a consistent fashion - and from 1960s discussions on user empowerment to the latest OpenSolaris builds, so has Unix. Notice,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, Troubles, zOS, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-01-24
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- SqlDbx 3.40 (Windows)
- Easy to use powerful Database IDE / SQL editor / SQL query tool for database and application developers. Syntax highlighting, Intellisense, Auto complete, Block select mode, Speed Typing, Schema Scripting, Schema Browser, Visual Diff, direct data edit. Supports Oracle, Sybase ASE / IQ / Anywhere, IBM DB2 / UDB /...
- Tags: ACS Technologies, SQL, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
- SqlDbx 3.31 (Windows)
- Easy to use powerful Database IDE / SQL editor / SQL query tool for database and application developers. Syntax highlighting, Intellisense, Auto complete, Block select mode, Speed Typing, Schema Scripting, Schema Browser, Visual Diff, direct data edit. Supports Oracle, Sybase ASE / IQ / Anywhere, IBM DB2 / UDB /...
- Tags: ACS Technologies, SQL, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-06-22
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- From Windows to Unix: a mental journey
- From Windows to Unix: a mental journeyAn idealogically unnecessary journey......that will waste time and energy for those who use what works, not what is politically preferred by people who have tunnel vision.Arrogance"With Windows and zOS you care mostly about applications, with Unix you care mostly about users."I call BS. If...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-01-24
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersI just don't believe the IBM numbersin terms of real-world workloads and comparing Linux-to-Linux implementations. Maybe if you are doing some kind of multi-dimensional modeling you might get some advantage from the z10, but for work-a-day web hosting?RE: Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersSo... we're looking at...
- Tags: Linux, Mainframes, Data centers, Servers, Storage, Z10, IBM Corp., Z10 number
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeUnderpaying the budget analystLess than $40,000? Is this a trainee?Gotcha momentWith the profusion of detail unconnected to any conclusion, strange to compain about missing information. Still, a sentence like this:In addition, the requirements shown for the project manager position contain...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, COBOL/VSE, IBM Corp., IBM mainframe, data-processing
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed "from the ground up" to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...
- Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Mainframes, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe, content management system, IBM Corp., IBM O/S, zVSE, memory, MVS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Buy techies with trust and freedom, not dollars
- Rewarding techies This is the 12th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. The biggest problem you will face in hiring a good CIO is that, in systems, failure succeeds and success fails. In IT:...
- Tags: Job, CIO, Information Technology, Finance, Help Desk, Call Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1
- The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...
- Tags: Failover, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Mainframes, Storage Management, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Servers, Storage
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Measuring TCO: Wintel vs Lintel
- The most basic, and traditional, Wintel vs Lintel TCO comparison argued that since the hardware is the same, everything comes down to the cost of the OS and applications licenses -all of which are free for Lintel and expensive for Wintel. This drew many different responses, but...
- Tags: Wintel, Benefit, TCO, Linux, Roi/Tco, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- RapidQuery 2 (Windows)
- RapidQuery supports the following Databases: DB2, Firebird, Informix, Interbase, MySQL ,ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLBase, SQLServer, Sybase. To be specific DB2 is DB2 for mainframe (ZOS,MVS), Windows, Linux, Aix and Unix. The price of RapidQuery is $USD 125 which Radem-Soft believes is a reasonable price for the quality and the...
- Tags: Trial Period, IBM DB2, Radem-Soft, RapidQuery, Databases, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-07
- Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power
- Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM's AIX on Power offerings and Sun's Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a technology decision - thus both abrograting and announcing the intended decision. What do you do? ...
- Tags: Application, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, Sun Sparc, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, AIX 5L V5.1, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Embedded experience as primary software determinant
- Embedded experience as primary software determinantCostly proposition"(2) making a big package decision while setting the pieces in place for its replacement in the future gives senior management the widest possible range of options, first to adapt their business plans as reality evolves and secondly to change their strategic systems directions...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Team management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Open Source CRM solution, open source, competitive advantage, ERP, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Mainframe Linux
- Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title "Mainframe Linux vs. Unix". Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an attractive alternative to Unix on RISC or SPARC...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Paul Murphy, mainframe, Linux, CALCULO S.A., Unix
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Leveraging Linux to sell yourself
- If you work at a fairly junior level in the typical corporate IT environment your bosses will probably be treating you as a technician of categorised skills whose opinions and expertise outside of the narrow job box they have you in are neither of interest nor of value. Basically...
- Tags: Strategy, Productivity, Linux, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Mainframes, IFL, and Linux
- Mainframes, IFL, and LinuxSo, what you're asserting here...... is that all those companies that buy, use and maintain mainframes are a bunch of clueless idiots and that a 900MHz PIII would do the same job?I think not. You neglected to mention the BIG difference in your comparisons - that you...
- Tags: Mainframes, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Linux, IFL, mainframe, GUI
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- Reacting to real security threats
- The threats I talked about yesterday call for an intelligent reaction - and ignoring these kinds of issues isn't a smart choice.So what can you do?It obviously depends a lot on what country you're in - but I see three kinds of actions CIOs and the IT managers who report...
- Tags: Sun, Security, Enterprise Policy, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
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