As we prepare for GOSCON this year, there are a number of key topics that come to mind. When one thinks about “Government” today, undoubtedly we hear discussions around cuts in government services; the need to raise taxes; stopping or reducing deficit spending and the general trend of doing more with less. This is not [...]

IBM may be a big, lumbering multi-billion-dollar corporation that is slow to turn, but boy, when IBMers get imaginative, they get imaginative. Steve Craggs of Lustratus Research recently marveled on what has become a fast-growing phenomenon: deployments of the open source Linux operating systems on mainframes. “Five or ten years ago, this sort of question [...]