There's another thread running re: the New York Times article about mainframe and SOA, but I thought I'd fill in some more details. IBM held a meeting with major analysts and the press last week to brief them on new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives concerning the mainframe. One analyst, James Governor, is reporting on this meeting, lead by IBM Software Chief Steve Mills, at the Mainframe Blog:
http://mainframe.blogspot.com I also found this press release: http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19620.wss The press release contains some interesting new information: * IBM expects mainframe transactions "to easily double" within 43 months. Wow. With news like that I can forgive the split infinitive. :-) * More than 1,700 customers run Linux on mainframes. (Rumor has it there's a single customer with close to 300 IFLs!) * More than 60 percent of IBM mainframe revenues are "new workloads" (Linux, Java, SOA, etc.) * First public mention (that I've seen) of the forthcoming IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager ("FIM") for z/OS product, continuing the trend for security-conscious enterprises (all of them?) to position the mainframe as the "security hub." * The press release mentions "IBM IT architects" at least twice and something about no-cost consultations. Meaning we IBM architects may be busy. Not so often one's personal potential workload appears so explicitly in a press release, but there it is. :-) - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
