InformationWeek has an interesting article on how Nationwide has consolidated more than 700 Intel and Unix servers on two IBM System z9 mainframes. Nationwide is running a version of Novell’s Suse Linux on the mainframes in VMware and IBM Virtualization Engine software.
I have previously blogged about the IBM System z9 Business Class and its usefulness for virtualization and also about reasons for running Linux on the mainframe.
IBM has today released the Rational Software Delivery Platform V7.0 – a comprehensive set of products that include the long awaited Rational Software Architect V7.0 (RSA) and Rational Application Developer V7.0 (RAD) and also products such as Rational Functional Tester V7.0 and Rational Performance Tester V7.0.
Rational Data Architect V7.0 has been released on November 28 – and integration with Rational Software Architect has now been improved.
A webcast on December 19 will introduce the new version and its new features.
LAUNCH – the first movie on SOA has been released. Enjoy!
… and Kelly: sorry, it isn’t Morgan Freeman as the detective. It’s a not so known actor called Thomas Merdis.
A new tutorial called “Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial is part 1 of a series and “you will learn about the relationship between a set of tools in the IBM® Rational® Software Development Platform that you will use as you design an SOA-based service using Model-Driven Development (MDD). You’ll see how to access requirements from different sources, use a customized software development process, and then start to model a design for the required service”.
You can now preregister for the Rational Software Architect V7.0 and Rational Functional Tester V7.0 open beta program. The beta program is set to start in October 2006.
From the press release:
“Clients participating in the beta program can experiment with new and improved features that help implement service oriented architectures, systems development, and geographically distributed applications.”
New features in the upcoming Rational Software Architect V7.0 includes:
Since the release of Rational Software Architect (RSA) V7.0 is getting closer we should expect Rational Application Developer (RAD) V7.0 to be released soon also.
Update December 2006: Rational Application Developer V7.0 and Rational Software Architect V7.0 has been released.
IBM is was giving away a free copy of “SOA for Dummies“. Go ahead and order your copy.
Aug. 9 update from Bobby Woolf: “The IBM offering is not the full book, it’s a subset aimed at businesspeople. The full book is 384 pages; the free IBM version is 66 pages, focusing on the business aspects and fundamentals of the architecture but not the technology details”
Sept. 21 update: The offer has expired. Due to the overwhelming success of the ordering of the free SOA for Dummies books, IBM has run out of supply. IBM has shipped 10,000 books around the world.
[Via Bobby Woolf]
A draft Redbook on Linux virtual servers on IBM zSeries and System z9 under z/VM is available. The Redbook shows in a cookbook format how to install and configure z/VM in an LPAR and then how to install Linux under the z/VM – thereby enabling Linux on z/Series. The book uses RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 for zSeries as the z/Linux distribution.
I have previously blogged about the IBM System z9 Business Class and its usefulness for virtualization and also about reasons for running Linux on the mainframe.
IBM is hosting a webcast titled “IBM Rational Data Architect for Blueprinting Your Enterprise Infrastructure” on July 18, 2006.
From the description:
“Learn how Rational Data Architect can help your organization gain a full and thorough understanding of your enterprise information architecture and how to create master blueprint of this information in the form of enterprise compliant data models.
Topics of discussion will include discovering your enterprise information infrastructure, discovering and defining information infrastructure relationships, and creating compliant data models.”
A tutorial for Rational Web Developer has been published: Visualize with Rational Web Developer. This tutorial will introduce you to “building, testing, and deploying Web, Web services, and Java applications” and show you how to “create a Web service, create a JavaServer Faces page, and link that page to a Service Data Object using the visual tools in Rational Web Developer.“
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