Works with IBM to help college students gain skills to run, maintain the high-end systems. BM has worked hard in recent years to keep its mainframe franchise attractive to IT managers. The company has made the high-end machines Linux and Java friendly and it has developed application-specific specialty processors. It’s also created a worldwide training program to increase the pool of students with mainframe skills. Continue reading at computerworld.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
I was searching about Java and mainframe and I found out NACA.
NACA was about replacing an IBM mainframe under MVS/OS390 (zOS) with Intel servers on Linux. The project started in January 2003 and successfully ended on june 30, 2007. It was on purpose implemented in a 100% iso-functional way, i.e. without any functional / applicational improvement brought during the process of trans-coding itself and by the transcoding engine. 4 millions lines of COBOL were 100% automatically trans-coded toward their Java equivalent.
The savings in cash-outs amounted to a total of 3 millions euros, 85% of the initial yearly level.
Publicitas now release its homegrown tools for this transcoding in open source
For more information on the NACA project (objectives, achievements, etc…) , check this page on their blog.
For more information about the tools that have been open sourced, check this page.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
IBM has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, services and financing related to the machines. Continue reading at NY Times.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho