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IBM Wannabe Is Back
A third-generation descendent of Amdahl will soon introduce a new server that will mimic IBM’s giant processors. Amdahl’s grandchild, Platform Solutions Inc., is a spin-off of Fujitsu Ltd., which first invested in Amdahl in 1972 and eventually bought all of it in 1997. Fujitsu ditched the Amdahl moniker in 2002. The new server, now being tested, is based on Intel’s Itanium 2 chip and can run IBM’s z/OS and MVS operating systems. An early investor of Platform Solutions is the venture capital firm Blueprint Ventures. “We did research on IBM mainframes and found out it’s still an $18 billion business,” says managing partner George Hoyem. “When you talk to CIOs, you realize there’s nothing on the event horizon that will cause them to abandon these things.” By the way, for you young ones, Bunch is an acronym for the big mainframe vendors that competed with IBM by using their own proprietary technology from the 1950s through 1980s: Burroughs, Univac [made by Sperry], NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell. « Does the future of IT look more like General Motors or Wal-Mart? | Main | Blogging for the Ears » |
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