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| IN THIS ISSUE: > From the News Editor: Amdahl's timing > Ask the Experts: Running Linux on the bare metal > Featured Topic: SHARE recap > More From Search390.com: News; recent expert responses |
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FROM THE NEWS EDITOR Back in the 1990s, after Amdahl engineers at Fujitsu missed a chip cycle, the plug-compatible mainframe (PCM) market shriveled up and died. Now, a number of former Amdahl engineers have reformed under a new name, Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI), to launch a new plug-compatible offering. PSI has presented at the last two SHARE conferences, touting its beta testing partner, L.L. Bean, and its Intel-based boxes. The company is focusing on the mixed environment mainframe shop and organizations that want to migrate some workloads off Big Iron, but still need to run native z/OS. Michael Maulick, president and CEO of PSI, is a veteran from IBM and Amdahl. He said PSI has learned from experience that relying on commodity chips from Intel will avoid that problem in the future. But if it flopped in the late '90s, will it work now? Is there a
market for mainframe compatible machines? Drop me an e-mail.
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Amdahl's timing
