Mainframe hopeful PSI sends lawyers at IBM in Europe
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Itanic fired up for EC gripe Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI) has opened up a European front in its war against IBM.â¦
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a mainframe milestone as more than 390 IBM business partners now offer nearly 1,000 applications for System z customers running Linux, a 100 percent increase over the last year.
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Let our mainframes go Analysis A quick stroll through Platform Solutions Inc.'s (PSI) data center reveals why IBM has sued the start-up. There's a hulking HP Superdome system with a tiny PSI label on it, and this box promises to do much of a mainframe's work for a fraction of the cost.â¦
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Hoping to add some momentum to its Workplace platform strategy IBM has launched an online developer resource center that gives software developers ready access to tools to help create products and services that will exploit the platform.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.
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Software giant will follow court orders and comply with EU's demands if necessary.
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IBM  will open in France its first  nuclear consultancy centre in July, at a time when utilities  are looking to build new reactors and stretch the old ones&#39;  lifetime, an executive said on Monday.
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IBM filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Platform Solutions Inc. claiming PSI's systems allow IBM mainframe operating systems to run on Itanium-based hardware.
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IBM will announced the pre-release of several tools for SMEs designed to speed development of solutions built on IBM middleware. The tools support the IBM Solutions Builder Express Portfolio, which provides
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Earlier this year, IBM&#39;s Power architects and forward-thinking partners held court at the Power Everywhere event in New York to extol the future of Power Architecture in all its manifestations.
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(InfoWorld) - Lawson Software continues to broaden its relationship with close partner IBM as the midmarket applications vendor Monday announced plans to enter the hosting market and use more of IBM's middleware. Building on the company's existing Total Care maintenance and support program, Lawson Total Care Platinum due out this month will cover software delivery, hosting, support, and application management services. Lawson didn't reveal specific pricing, but said the offering will be available on a monthly per user subscription basis with companies having to commit to at least a year's service. Lawson made the announcement at its Conference and User Exchange (CUE) taking place this week in San Diego. Customers had been asking Lawson to provide hosting for its ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications for some time, but lacking the necessary resources to offer the service itself, Lawson previously encouraged users to go with third parties, according to Lawson CEO Harry Debes. However, once customers made it clear they'd prefer to deal with a single organization, Lawson looked for a hosting provider with global reach and service capabilities. Over the past six to nine months, Lawson interviewed a number of hosting providers, opting for IBM because of its worldwide presence and its attractive pricing, Debes said. Customers will sign a hosting deal with Lawson that will commit to 99.7 percent system uptime, while IBM will provide hosting in its datacenters. On another front, Lawson has expanded its existing SOA (service-oriented architecture) technology partnership with IBM to allow the applications vendor to embed more IBM middleware in its System Foundation technology stack. Last year, Lawson announced that IBM's WebSphere would be the core middleware for all future versions of its applications. After making that deal, Lawson then realized there were other pieces of IBM software it should've bundled into its stack and so went back and negotiated with IBM to add in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Debes said. "In each of these situations, we've not given IBM the inside track or most favored nation status," Debes said, it's just that, after consideration of other vendors' offerings, IBM has proved to be the most appropriate choice. Last month,Â Lawson announcedÂ that IBM will resell Lawson's S3 and M3 applications in North America targeting small to midsize businesses and will also be involved in the development of the software for users in the financial services, fashion and food and beverage industries. Already, some Lawson operations in Europe have begun negotiating with IBM about their own reselling arrangements using the North American agreement as a framework, according to Debes. IBM has previously resold Lawson software outside North America, notably the M3 applications Lawson gained from its 2006 $480 million purchase of Intentia, but without the benefit of a formal arrangement. At CUE, Lawson also unveiled a fresh user interface that will eventually become the common interface across its entire range of applications. The Smart Client UI developed in conjunction with designer Frog Design Inc. over the past 12 months will first appear in Lawson's M3 7.1 applications due to start appearing in May. "We'll leapfrog the GUIs that are available now, including Microsoft's," Debes said. The new UI enables users to carry out specific customization and personalization to their applications and to incorporate two- and three-dimensional graphics and video. Â
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Switzerland's Endress+Hauser (International) Holding AG, a global supplier of process control systems, has migrated all its business applications from SAP AG to a mainframe running the open-source Linux operating system.
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(InfoWorld) - As blue chip companies in developed marketsÂ scramble to outsourceÂ high-cost jobs to low-cost countries, one of the world's biggest technology companies -- IBMÂ -- seems content to keep more than 1,800 highly trained, well-paid IT engineers at its R&D (research and development) lab in BÃ¶blingen, Germany. You wonder why. The German lab, IBM's first in Europe, was launched in 1957 by Thomas Watson, who believed the company had to develop and manufacturer products in markets where it had large customers bases. In recent years, however, IBM has either shut down or sold many of its computer manufacturing operations around the world, Germany notwithstanding. Yet the BÃ¶blingen lab, one of the group's largest, has remained largely intact. This is no small feat given that it's located in a country with high taxes, strict labor laws, and long vacations -- not what you would call useful qualities when competing with markets such as China and India. Despite the growing importance of China and India, where IBM is beefing up its R&D activities, Herbert Kircher, director of development and chairman of IBM Deutschland Entwicklung, sees a continued strong role for his lab and the others in France, Switzerland, and the U.K. as well as those in the U.S. "Yes, an Indian engineer may cost one third of what an engineer costs in Europe or the U.S., and we need to take advantage of this as we are doing," he said. "But we will not exit high-cost regions such as Europe and the U.S. We need the balance." The German lab has strengths of its own, Kircher is quick to point out. "We are able to retain highly skilled, highly motivated engineers," Kircher said. "Unlike IBM engineers in India and China who work for the company for an average two years, our engineers in Germany stay around 10 years, with some as many as 20 years, bringing with them a lot of project and customer experience as well as market know-how." Whereas IBM R&D executives in China or India often assign development projects to engineers with two years' experience or less, Kircher relies on what he calls "the right mix" of engineers. On the one side are engineers and researchers who are fairly new to the company and bring fresh ideas; on the other are staffers with a wealth of experience. "This mix contributes to our success in developing new products," he said. To make sure innovative ideas don't die in committee, the IBM lab in BÃ¶blingen invites engineers and researchers who have been with the company less than five years to participate in an annual, day-long event to present their ideas to senior executives. "This is a great opportunity to discuss and share ideas," Kircher said. In addition, all young researchers are assigned a mentor who can help push through ideas that, for whatever reason, are blocked in their teams. Staff turnover at the German lab is around 1 percent per year. Of these engineers, a number leave Germany -- not IBM -- to work for the company in the U.S., according to Kircher. "Many of our people are approached by competitors who offer more pay and other benefits but they stay because they like their work and their working environment," he said. "We attach great importance to a corporate culture that honors values and high performance." The IBM labs have developed specific competencies over the years. The German lab, for instance, took a lead in engineering the open-source Linux operating system to run on IBM's Z series mainframe computers. The lab also has expertise in workflow software, collaborating closely with German business software vendor SAP AG, which, it so happens, was founded by a group of former German IBM employees. "Some of our people have their own office at SAP's headquarters," Kircher said. "That's how close the cooperation is." In addition to its RFID (radio frequency identification) competency stemming from research conducted more than 15 years ago, the German lab is developing specialized know-how in the area of data analysis. Researchers in BÃ¶blingen are working on an intelligent software system that, for instance, can automatically analyze huge volumes of data collected from millions of video surveillance cameras. "In the future, we could have systems that recognize and interpret a picture, say, of people who enter an airport with luggage," Kircher said. "The system, for instance, could be designed to automatically detect travellers who enter certain areas with bags and leave without them without having people view all this footage." There are plenty more projects underway, according to Kircher, but they must remain confidential for competitive reasons. "We have a very nice, productive working atmosphere in BÃ¶blingen," the head of IBM's German development said. "People like to work here, and we aim to keep it that way."ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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An emergency motion was filed Friday the 13th of August in US District Court of Eastern Michigan, Compuware said that IBM failed to provide essential evidence, which includes several pieces of disputed software source code, until after the case&#39;s ...
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IBM Corp. hopes a new effort to simplify programming for mainframe computers helps keep those warhorses competitive.
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Europeans seek assurances that company is respecting privacy rights of people whose data it retains.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM launched its European Venture Capital Center in Dublin, the first such center outside of the company's corporate offices in Menlo Park, California. The center will be a place where IBM helps unite European startup companies with venture-capital firms and also where IBM can share some of its experiences with startups. Often small companies have found investors but lack the expertise to globalize and scale their offerings, said Nick Donofrio, IBM's executive vice president for innovation and technology, speaking during a press conference in Dublin. "We have those skills," he said. IBM will share such expertise with startups that participate in the center through events including subject-specific round tables or large conferences, such as one that IBM held in New York last week. Encouraging the success of emerging businesses ensures that IBM has strong partners to add to its ecosystem into the future, he said. IBM does not intend to invest in any of the participating companies directly but could in rare cases consider buying a company that might be developing technology fundamental to IBM's business, Donofrio said. IBM chose to place the center in Ireland in part due to its 50 year history in the country but also because of other factors that make it an ideal location. Ireland has a strong academic environment, government support for emerging technology companies, a culture of entrepreneurship and a presence of many global companies, said Deborah Magid, director of strategic alliances, software strategy for IBM Venture Capital Group. She couldn't say how many people the new center might employ but added that existing IBM staff would likely contribute to the center's efforts. IBM is alsoÂ opening an Innovation CenterÂ in Dublin, aimed at helping local software developers test and build products. In July,Â IBM said it was investingÂ â¬46 million ($59 million) and hiring 300 workers in Dublin. The new Venture Capital Center and Innovation Center are part of that ongoing investment. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.