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It looks like some more lawyers are going to make some more money off IBM's mainframe business. Neon Enterprise Software, the company that created the zPrime tool for shifting mainframe workloads to lower-cost zIIP and zAAP specialty engines on IBM's System z servers, announced today that it intends to file a compliant with …

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  1. Lou Gosselin

    Beind uncompetitive pays off.

    Legal arguments aside, all this goes to show that the most effective way to be profitable top is by eliminating the threat of competition rather than R&D.

    It seems unfortunate, that money would encourage one entity to hold back the work of competitors, rather than push forward themselves. It's a wonder we make any progress at all.

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  2. tony trolle

    not sure now but

    mainframe were once crippled in firmware, 120K upgrade was a firmware load and new labels with the upgrade engineer reading motoring magazines while pretending to swap boards

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  3. Kebabbert

    IBM aggressive

    as always. According to wikipedia article on "FUD", IBM was the first company to use FUD. Foul play by IBM has always been common. Just as when IBM released 511 software patents to open source, and sued TurboHerkules (who sells IBM Mainframe software emulators) for using these patents! According to wikipedia article on TurboHerkules, you can emulate an midsized IBM Mainframe on a decent PC - for a tiny fraction of the cost. It is understandable that IBM dont want people to use the software emulator. If people discovers how fast the emulator is, then IBM can not stop the migration off Mainframes to cheaper machines.

    Recently, an Sun M5000 was faster than an IBM Mainframe on some payroll benchmark.

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