IT vet Gordon Bell talks about Mainframe

Gordon Bell has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years. He was a key engineer and vice president of research and development at minicomputer pioneer Digital Equipment Corp. for 23 years and later a founder of the Computer History Museum. Today Bell is a principal researcher at Microsoft Corp
In an interview with Computerworld, [...]

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EC Asks Questions About IBM’s Mainframe Business

IBM may be starring down the barrel of an EC investigation of its precious mainframe business, significant to its bottom line.
According to both Bloomberg and Dow Jones, the commission has sent Big Blue a questionnaire asking for details about its mainframe business practices and questionnaires have a way of leading to formal investigations.
The EC is [...]

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Is COBOL killing CICS ?

How’s that for a starter ? I must immediately admit, it’s not my quote, it comes from Corneel’s Blog at the CICS Community Forums page. I recently came across this blog of Corneel Booysen, also the driving force behind the CICS Wiki, I discussed earlier. He writes a great article on how COBOL is a [...]

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Data Express gets Micro Focus update

The name Data Express resonates in the HP 3000 community from years of use by its supplier, MB Foster. But that Swiss Army knife of 3000 data transfer became the UDA-Link family years ago – so migrating HP 3000 sites shouldn’t be confused that Data Express now has an update. The COBOL and development environment [...]

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Legacy programming languages Pay Range

Skills in programming languages such as Cobol, Fortran, PowerBuilder, and more don’t rate like they once did.
“Certainly the Cobol people that had a resurgence with the Y2K bug aren’t in demand,” says John Estes, vice president of strategic alliances of Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing consultancy. “Certain other applications such as Delphi and PowerBuilder, [...]

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Iflex Solutions launches New Version of FLEXCUBE Core Banking for IBM System z

i-flex Solutions Ltd on April 21, 2008, has announced the availability of version 2.2 of FLEXCUBE Core Banking for IBM System z on zOS with IBM Web Sphere and IBM DB2 software stack.

It combines the rich functionality of Oracle FLEXCUBE and the reliability and security of IBM System z to enable global financial institutions to [...]

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CSC gets Western Power’s Mainframe Contract

IT services heavyweight CSC is the recipient of Western Power’s first outsourcing tranche as part of a $60 million strategic program.
The energy company, owned by the WA government, awarded CSC a three-year, $15.4 million contract for mainframe operations and support services.
“We’re replacing our in-house developed legacy applications that run on the mainframe with commercially available [...]

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