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Neon updates zPrime mainframe accelerator

Neon Enterprise Software, the cheeky provider of the zPrime systems software that allows production work normally running on IBM z/OS mainframe engines to be dispatched to cheaper zIIP and zAAP co-processors on those mainframes, has tweaked the tool so it can now offload even more work to those cheaper engines. The zPrime tool …

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Anonymous Coward
WTF?

Specialty Engines?

I would have expected the Register to be more savvy... zIIPs and zAAPs are not specialty engines they are exactly the same as CPs but with a little microcode to only allow certain workloads to run on them. They are a sales tool, nothing more, so IBM are just tweaking their licenses and promoting certain workloads by providing zIIPs and zAAPs (Also a certain amount of marketing BS by calling them specialty engines!). This company is doing nothing innovative, all they are doing is hacking the license cost calculation 'app' for wont of a better analogy. If there was a tool you could run on pSeries that allowed you to fool the LPAR into thinking it had 1/2 the CPUs it really had and hence save 50% on license costs would you use it?

Kebabbert

IBM sues again

Now IBM vs the Mainframe emulator TurboHercules case, has started to draw attention. IBM has released 511 patents and promised not to sue any companies. But Turbohercules has been sued!

Groklaw defends IBM vigorously on this and are using foul play. For instance, the TurboHercules founder is explaining his side on the case, and his comments are deleted - for everyone else except him. If he logs in to groklaw from another IP adress, his comments are deleted. But from his own IP adress, he can read his comments. So he believed that everyone could read his explanation, but groklaw is censoring him in a very sneaky way!

Start to read from the bottom and try to judge yourself about Groklaw. You should listen to both sides, not only IBM side.

http://ibmvshercules.com/

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According to this guy, Groklaw is an IBM FUD web site. The guy is trying to sell the IBM Mainframe emulator TurboHercules.

Groklaw who reported on IBM vs SCO case, is actually an IBM marketing channel. The founder of Groklaw, PJ, is an IBM FUDer and downtalks SCO and tries to make IBM look good. The result of this Groklaw site, is that IBM has gained lots of cred among open source people.

Ironically, IBM always was the evil company, until Microsoft took that role, but now MS has started to behave better. And IBM is getting back the role of the big evil company. IBM was the company that once started with FUD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Definition

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