Monday, October 25th, 2010
When I was young, I thought scissors came with the tips broken off … I learned later in life that actually they had been broken off by my dad when he used them as screwdrivers … an early lesson in using the right tool for the job. When we started the process of defining the ClearPath NextGen architecture we knew we needed to preserve the partitioning capabilities from earlier systems and at the same time we wanted to exploit all the capabilities in Intel’s latest system designs.. While virtualization is all the rage, we chose not to use a general purpose hypervisor for partitioning … did we choose wisely?
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
The ClearPath systems launched this week, the Dorado 4100 and the Libra 4100, represent the foundation for the next 50 years of ClearPath computing. What makes them significant is not that they are new, but that they are a contemporary interpretation that is true to the architecture of the systems that preceded them. Compatibility is one of the guiding principles of ClearPath engineering … Do you think the guiding principles of the ClearPath teams are still important?
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
Recently I spent a couple of days in Wellington New Zealand at the Future Matters Conference there. It was one of those rare opportunities to see old friends and make a few new ones. One of our financial clients in Wellington has been running a MCP based system for more than 40 years … having selected a Burroughs Mainframe system in 1967 to automate their bank. We find ourselves 40 some years later continuing to help this customer deliver efficient business solutions internally and externally to their clients as well. They are the first installation in New Zealand to put our ePortal application modernization solution into production use.
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