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T3 makes many of the same points that PSI made, but wants its own voice to be heard before any decisions are taken that could affect its own business. Contains cumulative links to all the court filings.
The legal process includes "discovery" - when both parties get a chance to look at the other's cards. Sometimes a revealing process.
IBM's legal moves against PSI could change the industry significantly and have huge implications for the zSeries endgame. This is IBM's claims against PSI and PSI's counterclaims, colour coded for clarity.
Configuration and performance details, now including MIPS and MSUs
As usual, without either permission or acknowledgement
After years of FUD during the PCM wars, IBM finally produces a zIIP DB2 offload processor for the mainframe - not to compete with Sun and Oracle - but with itself. Another welcome nail in the MIPS coffin.
(Updated 7 December 2005 - analysis confirmed by IBM)
To the question: "Is IBM going to stop building mainframes?" - the answer seems to be "No".
Previous articles from this site are still here in the archive. Just for a giggle, there's a Devil's IT Dictionary (with thanks to Ambrose Bierce).
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There may not be much here - but how much are you paying for it? There are IBM mainframe MIPS tables here too, but they're worth even less than the other stuff.
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