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    IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments.

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    IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes.

  • NSW Police ditches mainframes

    The mainframe environment which has been running the NSW Police force's key core applications since the early 1990s is about to meet its maker.

  • IBM to unearth T-Rex mainframe

    IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction.

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    Service oriented architectures (SOAs) can ease application development but they impose a significant administrative burden. David Braue finds out how Scandinavian Airlines dealt with the challenge of SOA proliferation with flying colours.

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    Big Blue adds features, beefs up training efforts in China; rival Unisys debuts new line and pricing plan.

  • Unisys mainframe gets .Net, Java

    Unisys, one of the few companies remaining in the mainframe market, will begin selling a new high-end system Monday that includes features to run advanced software.

  • Gates on Vista, Linux and more

    Microsoft's chairman discusses his favourite Vista feature, why he'll keep pushing for a new file system and open source's role.

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    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

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    Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.

  • Microsoft buy to aid server efforts

    Microsoft is acquiring some assets of Connectix, including software that permits Windows to run on a Macintosh and an unreleased server program.

  • Microsoft explores self-managing software

    Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.

  • Getting attached to your network

    We review four network attached storage (NAS) appliances designed to ease the storage load on your servers and the workload on your admins.

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