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IBM is not only discontinuing support for Intel's Itanium processor in a new generation of server technology, it's going a step further, dropping Itanium servers from the product line altogether, sources familiar with the situation said.

This chapter will assist you in tuning the performance of WebSphere V5 on your z/OS system with a general focus on z/OS-specific items.

IBM releases XL C/C++ ( a high-performance optimizing compiler ) to Linux developers. XL C/C++ provides high compile and execution performance, parallel programming APIs, memory management debug routines, and runtime dynamic linking.

Assembly language is not widely known among the programming community these days, and PowerPC assembly is even more exotic. This article presents an overview of assembly language from a PowerPC perspective and contrasts examples for three architectures: ia32, ppc, and ppc64.

Although IBM's open-source support is no money-maker, it does serve as a deft weapon to undermine Microsoft's markets. Bob Sutor is the VP of IBM Standards. Go here to see his other comments and his extensive list of links to articles on the subject from all the major developer and business publications.

The transparent real-time file-level protector - VitalFile for Real-Time Workstation Protection has a new version available for free download. Version 1.1.0.6 now has full system protection including replication of all changed files on a configurable schedule and version-tracking on remote file server. Vaulting allows lock-down of files or directories in an intelligent WORM fashion.

IBM has sold it's PC unit to Chinese computer maker Levono on Tuesday. The deal is valued at $1.75 billion. Here's the word from IBM itself. In a press release, IBM says this deal will create the world's third-largest PC business.

In part three of this three-part series, the authors offer a real-world implementation example of how the Analytics Acceleration Grid Environment (AAGE) can be used to deliver a virtual system environment that supports a wide range of application requirements, and makes the best, most efficient use of computing resources and data regardless of where or in what format they reside.

Something as simple as incrementing an integer can fail in a concurrent environment. This article illustrates the failure scenario and introduces the PowerPC's coping mechanism: atomic instructions. Learn how to close the Window of Death with these assembly-level instructions to update memory correctly, even in the face of concurrency.

IBM increased its lead in a growing server market, nibbling away share from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, according to figures to be released Wednesday.

Learn how to build a GNU cross compiler for PowerPC code development by downloading the PowerPC 750GX/FX evaluation kit (free reg. req.). The source code illustrates how to initialize and utilize various features of the processor--memory management unit, interrupts, and debugging features. The board schematics provide an example of how to connect the processor to a system controller (bridge) chip and other components in the system.

IBM's programming and scripting language, REXX, may have achieved a unique range of supported platforms, with success on everything from the Commodore Amiga to OS/2 to IBM mainframes. Over the years, REXX gained object-oriented features, and turned into Object Rexx, with programming interfaces to DB2, C, and C++ applications. A few weeks ago, IBM quietly released Object Rexx to the open source community. RexxLA — the REXX Language Association — targeting the first release of Open Object REXX for early 2005.

VitalFile for Real-Time Workstation Protection provides transparent real-time file-level protection. Any time a "user-created" file is changed; VitalFile makes up to three copies. No administrator is necessary and users can restore files themselves.