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Comment Re:All of IBM's old ideas are new again (Score 2, Insightful) 121

by BASICman on Saturday September 20, 2008 @12:40PM (#25085611) Attached to: Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS'

Once you have that VMware cluster you can run your choice of 70+ operating systems and millions of apps on it. Can you run Exchange on a mainframe? Sieble? Your existing billing and accounting app?

Well, you can run whatever runs on Linux on top of a mainframe. And if you're a Fortune 500 corporation, chances are your existing billing and accounting applications are *already* running on a mainframe. That is, after all, what the old girl is built for.

Getting the Most Out of a CS Curriculum? 124

Posted by Cliff on Saturday March 31, 2007 @08:20AM from the it's-not-just-about-code dept.

Henry asks: "In September I start on a CS-type degree course. I am probably a fairly typical newbie programmer, in that most of my knowledge centers around scripting and high to very high level programming. There's much to choose from: languages, concepts, mathematics, and so on. From previous stories, I know that many readers have strong opinions on the failings and weaknesses of university courses and students. Apart from all of the coding that I will do, what can I do in the coming months to maximize what I get out of this? "

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