VM Workshop Award
Sine Nomine Associates was presented with a Charter Sponsorship Award at the recent 2019 VM Workshop held June 27-29, 2019. We are honored to support this important event. (View the presentations at http://www.vmworkshop.org/2019pres.shtml).
Consider a Career in Mainframes
The mainframe is a dinosaur, right? Not so says Cameron Seay, Assistant Professor at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. In a lecture, posted on YouTube, Seay gives reasons why a career programming for mainframes is a smart decision. North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University is the site of the upcoming VMWorkshop which takes place June […]
Neale Ferguson interviewed by Jeffrey Frey for the “I Am A Mainframer Interview Series”
In their sixth episode of our “I Am A Mainframer Interview Series,” Jeffrey Frey, of the Open Mainframe Project, interviews Sine Nomine engineer Neale Ferguson. A full recording of the interview as well as a transcript is available on the Open Mainframe Project website. According to Frey, the “I Am A Mainframer Series” is “intended to […]
Sine Nomine Associates joins Open Mainframe Project
The British IT industry publication, The Register, recently reported on IBM’s announcement of 2016 development goals for the Open Mainframe Project. The announcement was made at the 2016 IBM InterConnect. From Penguinistas slide into a big, blue mainframe ocean: The Open Mainframe Project, launched in August 2015, has announced its development goals for 2016. The Linux Foundation […]
Open Source Software Alive and Well on the Mainframe in MongoDB
Much of the public believes that the mainframe is a dinosaur stuck in the “Mad Men” days, but programs such as MongoDB, which supports Linux on the mainframe, proves them wrong. A recent article, published on Linux.com, discusses the latest developments in mainframe databases. From the article, Running MongoDB and Other Open Source Apps on the Mainframe: Before the […]
Software Tools Available
Sine Nomine makes many software tools available to the public. These includes OpenAFS tools, Mono, ClefOS, NJE Bridge and Swapgen. The tools can be downloaded from http://download.sinenomine.net.
Sine Nomine Associates releases Spark container for Linux on System z
Neale Ferguson, of Sine Nomine Associates, reports that, as part of an ongoing research project, he has released a Spark container for Linux on System z. IBM announced new support for Spark March 29, 2016 at the Strata + Hadoop World summit. Maria Deutscher, of SiliconANGLE, discusses IBM’s new software bundle which makes “it more feasible for […]
SNA engineer Neale Ferguson quoted on Open Mainframe Project
“Linux on the mainframe has come a long way since it was released as patches in 1999. It has evolved from an adjunct to an organization’s IT environment to being front-and-centre,” said Sine Nomine Associates’ engineer Neale Ferguson about the recent announcement by the Linux Foundation of new members for the Open Mainframe Project. The announcement was […]
Introducing ClefOS
Recently Sine Nomine Associates engineer Neale Ferguson had the opportunity to introduce ClefOS (Commercial-grade Linux on Enterprise Foundations Operating System) to users of Linux on System z. The article appears on the blog Mainframe Debate. From Introducing ClefOS: ClefOS provides:
Mainframe Memories – 50th Anniversary of IBM System/360, “The Mainframe”
In an entry on his blog, Sine Nomine Associates principle engineer Neale Ferguson celebrates the 50th anniversary of the announcement of the IBM System/360 aka “The Mainframe”. To read the entire article, visit http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.html
