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German Pension Fund Moves to Linux on the Mainframe Using Clerity's UniKix
Software
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| Approximately 3.5 million lines of code and 2,500 CICS-COBOL programs,
| serving up to 5,000 simultaneous users, will be moved during this project.
| Since GRVS maintains life-long data for all workers in its system, the
| detailed calculations it performs will need to be replicated on the UniKix
| TPE and Linux on System z partition.
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http://www.itnewsonline.com/showprnstory.php?storyid=14571
Quote for the day:
"Windows 98 without Internet Explorer 4 is a working operation system and
Internet Explorer 4.0 is not an vital part of Windows 98."
--Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Recent:
An Earthshaking Use of Open Source
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| A German scientific institute migrated to Linux and open-source software to
| monitor global seismic activity data for compliance with the nuclear test ban
| treaty.
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http://www.cio.com/article/426363/An_Earthshaking_Use_of_Open_Source/1
Debian GNU/Linux powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer
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| A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
| have created Germany's 4th largest supercomputer by using Debian GNU/Linux.
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http://times.debian.net/1250-Debian-32.8-TFlops-at-Max-Planck-Institute
Ubuntu In Popular Culture
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| Yesterday we watched “Berlin am Meer” - not a world-changing, but nice movie
| filmed in Berlin. As in all other modern movies which happen to be shot in
| Berlin, I enjoy the sensation of recognising where the scene happened (”Nice,
| that’s like 5 minutes from here.” or “We’ve been at that spot last weekend.”)
| The movie did not disappoint us in that regard, lots of scenes were shot in
| Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain and Treptow.
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| In addition to that, I was pleased to see they used Ubuntu in a short scene.
| (The supposed best friend of the leading character copies files from his
| laptop without him knowing.)
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http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=239
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