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stephen – April 16, 2010
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stephen – April 16, 2010
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stephen – April 12, 2010
First of all a disclosure – I am currently employed by IBM as a software developer (but not in the z/OS group), however I will try to be impartial in my assessment of the situation. As you read this post keep in mind that the opinions expressed are mine alone and not representative of the opinions of IBM or its affiliates.
If you haven’t heard about the recent shots fired between IBM and TurboHercules, Ars Technica has good coverage of the whole situation which can be found here. If you don’t have a few minutes to read the whole thing there I can give you the gist: The Hercules open source project allows applications written for the IBM System Z operating system to run on alternate hardware (including desktop computers) within mainstream operating systems. IBM had no problem with this until recently, when TurboHercules was founded to offer the software commercially – and made a move against IBM accused monopoly of the mainframe space. Now, IBM has asserted a number of its patents against TurboHercules (some of which were pledged to the open source community back in 2005).
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stephen – April 7, 2010
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stephen – April 1, 2010
Looks like I am a bit late to the party, but Nokia is using the knowledge of the crowd to design a new concept phone. Based on user input on the Nokia Conversations site the handset maker will put together a concept that will have the correct mix of style, features and cost, based on customer input. Crowdsourcing is not a new concept but it has shown success in the past at solving tough challenges for a fraction of the cost of internally designed solutions.
