Mainframe Update

OK, I’ve stolen the title from Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film – or from the title of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel. And this blog has nothing to d...

Let’s make it clear, this isn’t a personal rant – although I am finding the lack of Vista drivers for devices that happily attached to my XP...

I must have been messing around at the back of the class recently, because I have only just heard of aglets – a portmanteau word created fro...

You might very well think this is a strange title for a blog – after all, they seem like two completely different things. It’s like saying a...

I mentioned in last week’s blog that I’d been to Mainz in Germany with IBM. The focus of the meeting was on SMB customers rather than mainfr...

I was recently with IBM in Mainz discussing data centre challenges for the 21st century. Interestingly, one of the issues under discussion w...

IBM has been excitedly telling everyone recently about the latest release of CICS. But the real question is whether sites should be looking ...