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Rival Adds To IBM's Mainframe Legal Woes -

Neon Systems is suing IBM, claiming Big Blue’s anticompetitive behaviour violated trademark laws and cost Neon business. -

Read more at: http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/rival-adds-to-ibm-s-mainframe-legal-woes-2769

NEON breathes fresh air into the mainframe

Published on 19th November 2009.

Published by: Information Age

Written by Pete Swabey.

By allowing mainframe software to run on so-called 'specialty processors', mainframe systems management company threatens to shake up IBM's hold on the market
Not long ago, it was widely considered that, although the mighty mainframe still plays a central role in many enterprise IT architectures, it was not a technology that was growing. The fact that the mainframe market was dominated entirely by a single company – IBM – did not attract all that much attention as a result. Read more.

NATO at 60: What next?

Published online on Tuesday, 10 November 200; written by Graham Jarvis for Diplomat magazine. 

NATO may no longer be doing the job for which it was created, but as Graham Jarvis observes, that hasn’t stopped it from becoming an increasingly vital international organisation...

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Mainframes: life begins at 45

Published on 17th November 2009; written by Trevor Eddolls for The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

When I contemplate mainframe futures, I’m always reminded of the man who, in 1991, famously announced that the last mainframe in the world would be unplugged in 1996. Thirteen years on from that prediction, and 45 years on from the advent of the IBM System/360 - generally agreed to be the first true mainframe platform - and the platform’s prospects are looking bright on a range of technological fronts.

Read more at: http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/0920/life-begins-at-45-0920.cfm

Cutting into Mainframe Opex

Written By: Martin Banks
Published: 19 November, 2009 by Bloor Research.

Saving anything on operational expenses is one of the constant concerns of CIOs and IT managers, particularly when the level of business is under the cosh from a tough economic environment. The mainframe sector is no different in this respect, so the arrival of zPrime from NEON Enterprise Software back in June was bound to create waves, for it offers the opportunity to generate significant savings in both operational expense and time, while providing a kicker for the throughput of business applications... Read more at:

http://www.bloorresearch.com/analysis/11572/cutting-into-mainframe-opex.html

or at: http://www.it-director.com/technology/content.php?cid=11678

or at: http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/content.php?cid=11678 

eWeekEurope: Neon Updates Mainframe Migration Tool

"Neon Enterprise Software has upgraded its tool that allows workloads running on IBM Mainframe to be moved to a cheaper resource."

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Living in Big Blue’s shadow - Richard Waters, FT.com

"As the Department of Justice gets further along with its investigation into how IBM maintains its dominance of the mainframe market, [Neon Enterprise Software's] Lacy Edwards is certainly someone it will want to talk to." Read more.

Springboard magazine, 'Getting closer to your customers'

Read my article in the UKTI's magazine on segmenting international customers: http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1E4ac0cf1a27811012.cde/page/31

Techworld.com - 'System managers in thumbs-up for mainframes: Revenues for big iron set to continue'

By Maxwell Cooter | Techworld
Published: 07:32 GMT, 17 September 09

Who said the mainframe was dead? According to a new report from IDC, nearly half of all mainframe are set to increase their annual spending on mainframes...

Read all about it. The article quotes Lacy Edwards, Neon Enterprise Software's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Can Western Economies Learn From Central And Eastern Europe?

Graham Jarvis looks to Poland and the Czech Republic for lessons on how the West might better have avoided the present financial and economic crisis.

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