http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Tue, 21 May 2013 11:47:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/24952/IBM_Donates_Symphony_to_Apache_OpenOffice_org_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24952/IBM_Donates_Symphony_to_Apache_OpenOffice_org_Project/ "After most of the developers and Linux distributions deserted them for LibreOffice, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation. IBM has surprisingly thrown its weight behind OpenOffice.org in the OpenOffice.org vs LibreOffice fight. Tomorrow IBM will announce the donation of the source code of their free office suite - IBM Lotus Symphony - to the Apache OpenOffice.org." Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) IBM 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24858/IBM_Turns_100_Today/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24858/IBM_Turns_100_Today/ "Today International Business Machines celebrated a relative rarity in the tech business - its one hundredth anniversary. By contrast Google is a mere 12 years old, Apple is 35, Microsoft is 36, and Hewlett-Packard is 72 years old." One of the most important companies in the computer industry. Congratulations, IBM, on to the next century! And we get to use our IBM logo for once. Yay! Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:50:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23737/IBM_s_Million_Dollar_CPU_Is_the_Fastest_in_the_World/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23737/IBM_s_Million_Dollar_CPU_Is_the_Fastest_in_the_World/ At the Hot Chips 2010 conference, IBM announced their upcoming z196 CPU, which is really, really fast. How fast? Fastest chip in the world fast. Intended for Z-series mainframe computers, the Z196 has a clock speed of 5.2GHz. Measuring just 512 square millimeters, the Z196 is fabricated on 45nm PD SOI technology, and on its surface contains almost one and a half billion transistors. My... Processor is bigger than yours. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:24:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23566/IBM_opens_up_beta_for_AIX_7/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23566/IBM_opens_up_beta_for_AIX_7/ For only the second time since Big Blue entered the Unix market for real in February 1990 with the launch of the RS/6000 line of workstations and servers, the company is letting customers who use its Power-based servers take a future AIX release for a test drive in an open beta program Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:56:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) IBM 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23519/IBM_Moving_to_Firefox/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23519/IBM_Moving_to_Firefox/ Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Linux at IBM confirmed on his blog that the entire IBM company is moving to Firefox as its default browser. Though it seems like various users in the company have been able to use Firefox for quite some time, it looks like now they're going to be encouraging everyone to use it, and all new computers will be provisioned with Firefox as the default. Sutor has plenty of glowing praise for the open source browser in his blog post. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:07:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) IBM 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23325/IBM_Ships_Servers_Equipped_with_NVIDIA_GPUs/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23325/IBM_Ships_Servers_Equipped_with_NVIDIA_GPUs/ IBM has updated its System x iDataPlex servers to include graphics processors from Nvidia. The new servers are aimed at organizations that want to run scientific and commercial applications on graphics processors. Wed, 19 May 2010 22:20:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23168/IBM_Prunes_Low-Cost_AIX_Rev/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23168/IBM_Prunes_Low-Cost_AIX_Rev/ "IBM has radically improved the bang for the buck on its Power7-based Power Systems 701 and 702 blade servers this week, and is expected to soon deliver similarly priced entry rack and tower servers. And now it has a new, lower-cost AIX 6.1 Express Edition that will match the less expensive hardware and therefore help Big Blue's AIX platform better compete against Windows, Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris alternatives. The new AIX Express Edition takes the special low-cost pricing that was available only on JS series blade servers and now makes it available across the Power Systems line, including logical partitions on the largest Power 595 (and before too long Power 595) servers." Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:52:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23156/Porting_Open_Source_Projects_to_z_OS_UNIX/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23156/Porting_Open_Source_Projects_to_z_OS_UNIX/ This article describes a real-word software port, with examples of how various porting challenges are resolved. If you are a software developer porting software to UNIX, you will find these techniques invaluable in avoiding common pitfalls, resolving bugs, and improving your productivity. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:51:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23115/IBM_Breaks_Open_Source_Patent_Pledge/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23115/IBM_Breaks_Open_Source_Patent_Pledge/ And thus our true colours reveal. IBM made a patent pledge in 2005, promising not to sue open source projects over a list of 500 patents the computer giant holds. Today, however, IBM has threatened to sue TurboHercules, a French open source software house which provides support for the Hercules open source s390 mainframe emulator. Some of the patents in question are on the 500 list. Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:32:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 98 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22845/Power7_Big_Blue_Eye_on_UNIX/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22845/Power7_Big_Blue_Eye_on_UNIX/ "The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for product launches, but it seems clear that IBM wanted to get out in front of a whole lot of processor and systems launches that are expected between now and the summer." Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:38:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22547/IBM_Shows_off_Power7_HPC_Monster/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22547/IBM_Shows_off_Power7_HPC_Monster/ "IBM likes to go on and on about the transaction processing power and I/O bandwidth of its System z mainframes, but now there is a new and much bigger kid on the block. Its name is the Power Systems IH supercomputing node, based on the company's forthcoming Power7 processors and a new homegrown switching system that blends optical and copper interconnects. The Power7 IH node was on display at the SC09 supercomputer trade show last week in Portland, Oregon, and El Reg was on hand to get the scoop from the techies who designed the iron. This server node is the heart of the 20 petaflop 'Blue Waters' supercomputer being installed at the University of Illinois." Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:10:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22518/IBM_Halts_Future_Cell_Development/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22518/IBM_Halts_Future_Cell_Development/ German website Heise Online has received confirmation that IBM is terminating its Cell processor line. This means that no future development will take place, making the PoweXCell 8i the last Cell processor. Parts of the Cell project will still make it into future processor designs, however. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22376/IBM_Canonical_Pitch_Ubuntu_Cloud_Package_at_US_Firms/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22376/IBM_Canonical_Pitch_Ubuntu_Cloud_Package_at_US_Firms/ "With the imminent release of Windows 7, IBM and Canonical are clasping hands to sell an Ubuntu Linux- and Lotus-based desktop package to US businesses targeting low-end PCs and netbooks. The duo initially launched their Ubuntu-powered IBM Client for Smart Work desktop bundle to Africa back in September. But IBM said it decided to swing the offering State-side due to demand from its partners." Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:14:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22274/The_History_of_the_ThinkPad_Name/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22274/The_History_of_the_ThinkPad_Name/ What laptop is the most loved, and maybe the most famous laptop in the world? Which laptop went into space? Which laptop won over 300 design awards? I'm sure many of you will be thinking of something made by Apple, but the truth of the matter is that we're talking about something else: IBM's ThinkPad. You might wonder, where does that name come from? Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:49:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) IBM 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News http://www.osnews.com/story/22186/IBM_Forcing_All_Employees_to_Stop_Using_Microsoft_Office/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22186/IBM_Forcing_All_Employees_to_Stop_Using_Microsoft_Office/ "Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, 'Handelsblatt' reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM's in-house Lotus software. The use of Microsoft Office will in future require managerial approval. With immediate affect, the Open Document Format (ODF) will rule at IBM with the file ending .doc soon belonging to the past... IBM's management have obviously decided to practice what they preach. 330,000 IBM workers already use Symphony, reports the newspaper. The motive for the migration appears not to be the saving of license fees, and according to an IBM press officer, the move is a clear statement in appreciation of open source standards." Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:49:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) IBM 34 http://www.osnews.com/topics/8 News poundsmack