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IBM: Mainframes enjoying global resurgence
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| In an email note, Madan Sheina, senior analyst at Ovum, said Cognos's recent
| move to put business-intelligence (BI) software on the IBM System z mainframe
| running Linux indicates that mainframes are far from being legacy systems.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39462450,00.htm
"Legacy systems"... isn't that Gartner/Microsoft talk? Declaring something dead
because you /want/ it to die?
Yesterday:
The Great Industry Standard Conspiracy
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| A couple of innocuous words that have insidious consequences. A simple
| marketing tagline, yet it appears to be seriously undermining a vast segment
| of the computer sector. What is it? The phrase, "industry standard."
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| It comes from the same warped (but ingenious) minds that coined the
| term "legacy" back in the 1990s. That harmless word served to forward the
| Windows NT - Intel processor gravy train at the expense of so-called inferior
| technologies like mainframe, OpenVMS and even Unix. Yet many would argue that
| despite all the genuine improvement to Windows in recent years to make it
| much more enterprise friendly, it still can't hold a candle to many of these
| legacy systems.
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| The rumor goes that the legacy propaganda was originated between a Gartner
| analyst and someone in the Windows NT development/marketing camp. Whether
| true or not, it certainly helped sell an awful lot of Wintel gear. Now we
| have "industry-standard" weaving its way into the computer lexicon. The
| hidden intention appears to be to outlaw RISC and everything else except
| x86-Intel fare.
|
| [...]
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| I attempted to track down the origin of the term "industry standard," but I
| didn't have much success. Web searches are sabotaged by the fact that the
| term industry standard architecture (ISA) was coined in 1981 for something
| else entirely. So it isn't even an original concept.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3765436
Recent:
Other Underreported Stories: Analyst Integrity?
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| There was a pretty interesting discussion with views on both sides. Some felt
| that the rumors have been so persistent that, well, where there's smoke
| there's fire. Others saying they have heard from someone who heard from
| someone that once they started paying their exposure improved. Others saying
| it's just like the rumors that magazine advertisers get better reviews, an
| accusation that has been levied to Ziff-Davis publications, as well as
| photography and stereo equipment magazines for years.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/12/other_underrepo.html?source=rss
Credibility Of Analysts
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| Research firms make their living by offering expert advice to business and
| technology people about the best ways to invest their IT dollars. It can be
| invaluable insight, but only if that analysis comes with no strings attached.
| And on that, there's no guarantee.
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| Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and others insist their output is squeaky clean, yet
| they also rake in millions providing services to the very same companies they
| monitor, heavyweights like Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. Which leads to
| a question that continues to dog the research firms: How much influence do
| technology vendors have over their work?
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CTCBZVQX5MTSCQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=178601879&queryText=analyst+influence
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