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Eighteen months ago I wrote how IBM’s IMS was, after 44 years in production, still in use across much of the corporate business world. This week offered some additional proof of the continued reliance by big business on IBM mainframe systems by the anti-trust probe launched by the US Department of Justice on behalf of [...]

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With the widespread adoption of virtualization within data centers, and the anticipated growth of virtualized data centers (to the tune of 10K nodes, if one believes Irfan Amad of VMWare) it is pretty clear that in addition to the scalability issues, two additional problems need to be solved: The first, mentioned to me by my [...]

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For a software system, IBM’s IMS (Information Management System) hierarchical database system is getting pretty long in the tooth – it was developed beginning in 1964 as a joint effort between IBM and Rockwell International for the Apollo moon program. That makes IMS 44 years old, an eternity in the life of a software product. [...]

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