Here's a story you've heard a bunch of times: IBM liked the software so much, it bought the company. And so the story ran again last week, when Big Blue bought software emulation specialist Transitive for an undisclosed sum. Transitive makes a bit of software called QuickTransit, which allows applications created for one chip to …
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Posted Tuesday 25th November 2008 15:51 GMT
...on newer 64 bit machines. That's one of the selling points isn't it? Run anything that was ever written for mainframe EVER on even the newest box?
Posted Tuesday 25th November 2008 16:34 GMT
I only clicked on the article 'cos I thought it was about Transvestites...
I'm going now, mine's the one with the bottle-glass spectacles in the pocket.
Posted Tuesday 25th November 2008 23:14 GMT
"now IBM has a lot of leverage in which to create a set of QuickTransit pairings"
I think what you really wanted to write is "now IBM has the opportunity to grow a (QuickTransit) pair"
You're welcome
Posted Wednesday 26th November 2008 11:12 GMT
Is it just me that clicked on this story curious as to what presents IBM's Transvestite would be buying...?
Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 10:51 GMT
I did not realize that IBM had such serious compatibility issues within it's own systems as to require something like this to go from (almost) 32 bits to 64 bits... or even from one version of an OS to another... what a nightmare...
I hope they enjoy their Transitive purchase!
Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 11:00 GMT
I did not realize that IBM had such serious compatibility issues within it's own systems as to require something like this to go from (almost) 32 bits to 64 bits... or even from one version of an OS to another... what a nightmare...
I hope they enjoy their Transitive purchase!
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