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“The Linux Line” Magazine Released: IBM, Red Hat Interviews

Submitted by Open Magazine 2004-01-21 IBM 3 Comments

In this month's "The Linux Line" issue: Bill Zeitler, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Systems Group, tells how Linux is changing the way that governments and companies operate; Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik talks about the continued expansion of Red Hat into the global marketplace;

IBM Announces C/C++ and Fortran Compilers for Mac OS X

Eugenia Loli 2004-01-14 IBM 9 Comments

IBM announced two compilers for Mac OS X: "IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition V8.1 for Mac OS X -- A new platform supported in the IBM XL Fortran family" and "XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V6.0 for Mac OS X -- A new platform for the IBM family of C/C++ compilers".

IBM keynote presentation from Desktop Linux Conference in Boston

Submitted by Jill Ratkevic 2003-11-15 IBM 45 Comments

DesktopLinux.com, in coordination with the Desktop Linux Consortium, is making select presentations from Monday's conference at Boston University's Corporate Education Center available. The first presentation in the series is from IBM's Sam Docknevich, Linux and Grid Services Executive for IBM Global Services. His presentation discusses IBM's push into the Linux desktop market, an initiative from inside "Big Blue." Elsewhere, LinuxJournal has a review of some of the presentations in the conference.

Open Source Not Ready for Desktop, IBM Told UK Government

Eugenia Loli 2003-11-08 IBM 122 Comments

"The UK government has a 'level playing field' policy for use of Open Source Software, but although it is supposed to be considering "OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT procurements", this does not seem to have produced much in the way of significant deployments or contracts. And who is to blame for this apparent lack of movement? A smoking pistol placed before a Parliamentary Committee last week seemed to implicate that well-known partisan of Open Source Software IBM." TheRegister reports. And all this while the press is expecting IBM to give a talk at Desktop Linux Consortium's conference on Monday about Linux on the desktop.

IBM Charges Forward with Power 5

Submitted by emo 2003-09-08 IBM 20 Comments

IBM has previewed the designs for its upcoming 64-bit Power 5 processor, which the company states will augment total system performance by 40 percent over its predecessor. At last week's Hot Chips Conference in Palo Alto, Calif., IBM disclosed that it was incorporating simultaneous multi-threading into Power 5; the process takes chip multiprocessing to a new level where each chip tackles two threads as opposed to one.

IBM Prepares Linux Barrage

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-30 IBM 22 Comments

LinuxWorld preview: IBM on Wednesday will announce a new server; a DB2 Linux integrated clustering environment; extended Linux support for the Lotus client and server; as well as three key Tivoli offerings.

PowerPC 970 Redux: Dialogue and Addendum

Submitted by kenny 2003-07-21 IBM 22 Comments

John "Hannibal" Stokes has interviewed Pete Sandon, the PowerPC 970's main designer, and David Edelsohn, a compiler writer from IBM, and clarified several points about the 970 regarding group formation, vector issue queues and performance, and more.

IBM’s New G5 Microchip Plant Not Measuring Up

Guest post by MacWorld UK 2003-07-18 IBM 133 Comments

IBM's new $3 billion microprocessor factory in New York – where G5 processors are reportedly manufactured – is losing money, the company announced this week. Reuters reports that production problems are affecting the plant.

Interview with IBM Software Group’s Steve Mills

Eugenia Loli 2003-05-19 IBM 7 Comments

On its 10th anniversary, IBM Software Group, led by Steve Mills, is taking its winning middleware formula to small business. eWeek also features a long and interesting interview with the Mr Mills.

IBM Trims Power4, Adds AltiVec; ArsTechnica Analysis

Submitted by Ralf Hasemann 2003-05-14 IBM 31 Comments

In this Microprocessor Report PDF excerpt, the PowerPC 970 is reviewed by outside industry experts who conclude that "IBM has created an impressive and affordable PowerPC chip for smaller servers, graphics workstations and desktop computers". Also, ArsTechnica posted the second part of their PPC 970 series of articles, "Inside the PowerPC 970, Part II: The Execution Core".

ISV’s Test Drive IBM eServer Linux

Adam Scheinberg 2003-05-09 IBM No Comments

Frank writes "IBM has a new eServer Linux Test Drive program. It enables ISV's the ability to test drive Linux on all IBM eServer platforms. It's no-charge access(14 to 30 days) to the eServer iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, or its mainframe zSeries. ISV's can choose Turbolinux, SuSE, or Red Hat to develop, port, and or test drive their solutions on IBM's eServers running IBM's middleware, and the e-business developers' toolkit based on Linux."

Rational Digs Up Gems

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 IBM No Comments

Following the merger, Rational Chief Scientist Grady Booch was assigned to serve as liaison between Rational and IBM Research. So far, he's identified nearly 300 projects that the company thinks will fit Rational tools.

Goodbye zOS? Your Next Big Unix Box Might Be a Linux Mainframe

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-29 IBM 14 Comments

In what one IBM-watcher calls a 'dramatic change' in IBM's thinking, Big Blue is now starting to push mainframes that run Linux -- and only Linux.

CeBit: PPC 970’s up to 1.8GHz

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-12 IBM 26 Comments

"MacGuardians (German) report from CeBit that IBM's PowerPC 970 will debut at up to 1.8GHz as originally expected. (IBM's Microprocessor Forum presentation in October 2002 indicated initial speeds for the PowerPC 970 ranging from 1.4GHz - 1.8GHz). The 2.5GHz models described in an IBM press release more recently are reportedly for the subsequent generation of 970's, but will apparently utilize the 0.13 Micron Process, contrary to ZDNet's report." The article is at MacRumors.

IBM PowerPC 970 Blade Reaches 2.5 GHz in Lab

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-27 IBM 88 Comments

The new IBM PowerPC 970 is the heart of the PowerPC Blade. It is based on the 64-Bit Power 4 architecture which is also used in the processors of the IBM eServer pSeries. The 64-bit microprosessor offers full symmetrical multi-processing, has a high reliability (with parity L1, ECC L2 and parity checked system bus) and is manufactured in the latest 0,13 micrometer Copper/SOI CMOS technology. The CPU runs at frequences ranging from 1.8 GHz - 2.5 Ghz, therefore the IBMPowerPC 970 is the fastest PowerPC so far. It also features onchip 512 KB L2 Cache, Altivec Vector/SIMD unit, 6,4 GB/s I/O system bus throughput. Rumors want that chip to be the next CPU used by Apple when it's out.

IBM’s New Rational Software Resource Center

Submitted by Frank 2003-02-24 IBM 12 Comments

Rational's open, industry-standard tools for developers can improve the speed, quality, and predictability of application development on J2EE, .NET, Linux, and other platforms. Rational Software is a founding member of Eclipse and has taken a leadership role in the growth of Eclipse as the Open Source standard. Take a look at the new resource center for Rational software, and what they are creating for the Open Source community.

IBM Power5 to Quadruple Server Strength

Guest post by Kevin Adams 2003-02-19 IBM 12 Comments

"IBM has fired up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a top IBM executive said Monday, predicting that systems with the new chip will have four times the performance than those using the current Power4." Read more at ZDNet.

IBM Plots Road Ahead with Power5

Eugenia Loli 2003-02-05 IBM 9 Comments

"IBM has plans to make the midrange and low end of its Unix line stronger in a move that could liven up competition within the company between competing chip architectures. In 2004, IBM will roll out its Power5 processor, which will in some ways complete an overhaul of the company's entire Unix server line. With chips tuned for each class of Unix server it sells, IBM is looking to keep the heat on Sun Microsystems and stop users from defecting to Intel's Itanium processor." Read the article at InfoWorld.

IBM: Linux is the ‘Logical Successor’

Eugenia Loli 2003-01-29 IBM 26 Comments

The day is approaching when Linux will likely replace IBM's version of Unix, the company's top software executive said, an indication that the upstart operating system's stature is rising within Big Blue.

IBM Mulls Linux For Its PCs

Adam Scheinberg 2002-12-28 IBM 96 Comments

dabooty writes "International Business Machines (IBM) may soon start packing its PCs with the open-source Linux operating system (OS). IBM’s Linux initiative has so far been limited to its servers and workstations. Read it at Financial Express." Yes, we all know Linux isn't an OS - but a better comment would be 'Is this Yet Another Linux Distribution or the sound of the the first stone of the Microsoft empire crumbling?'