The bride's father, a founder and former president of the Intermem Corporation, a developer of memory systems for mainframe computers that was in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is retired.
Oddly enough, it's the same sort of criticism IBM delivered eight years ago when EMC started selling RAID systems for mainframes.
For years EMC refused to build these low-cost "appliances," claiming they were too small, holding only a terabyte or two, and too slow, moving data only as fast as an Ethernet network can.Oddly enough, it's the same sort of criticism IBM delivered eight years ago when EMC started selling RAID systems for mainframes.
IBM's OS/2 was the operating system of choice for mainframe and minicomputers that used Lancore's technology.
Duffield, who has engineering and M.B.A. degrees from Cornell, started installing operating systems for IBM mainframe customers in the 1960s.
Even though the overall market for mainframe systems declined 29% during the first three quarters of 2000 from the same period a year ago, Fujitsu's loss was a gain for IBM, which reported a strong surge in its mainframe business, according to Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp. analyst Steve Josselyn, who follows this market.
BMC Software Inc., a systems management software manufacturer, agreed yesterday to pay about $70 million in cash for OptiSystems Solutions Ltd., an Israeli maker of enterprise application management software for mainframe computer systems.
Combined, the companies would hold nearly all of the $1-billion-a-year market for specialized robotic systems that handle tape storage for mainframe computers, according to Robert Amatruda, an I.D.C. analyst.
Contrast that with 6% growth for mainframe operating systems.
