Runtime Fees: The Hidden Tax in Your Tech Stack

Runtime Fees: The Hidden Tax in Your Tech Stack

In COBOL environments, runtime-based licensing imposes recurring costs each time an application is executed—costs that persist well beyond the initial compiler purchase. While initially tolerable in controlled, limited use environments, runtime-based licensing fees...

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An Approach – DevOps in Mainframe

An Approach – DevOps in Mainframe

As we know, Mainframes are not going away for the next 50 years at least and in growth, 8% of Australian respondents expect general purpose MIPs growth of more than 10% over the next two years, with 46% suggesting growth between 1 and 10% – a more optimistic forecast...

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DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge

DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge

The speed of digital transformation is already impressive and will only increase. To put this in very concrete terms, consider the following: Suddenly, a large number of people jumped from a very provincial lifestyle directly into digital times - creating a massive...

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DevOps in the multi-platform Data Center

DevOps in the multi-platform Data Center

Positioned by some as the panacea of new-age IT management, promising shorter development times, improved business processes, reduced time to market, more engaged teams, greater business agility, and more, DevOps is all the rage. If you're not doing it, you're doing...

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The Mainframe’s Place In DevOps

The Mainframe’s Place In DevOps

Read an interesting article a while back on how to pull off a DevOps implementation successfully: 10 ways to win at devops that identified some important ideas requiring attention in any new DevOps implementation. Some are pretty obvious: get buy-in from the C-Suite,...

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