In "You really should know what the Andrew File System is," a recent article for Network World, News Editor Bob Brown concludes that "AFS is indeed worth knowing about as a foundational technology that paved the way for widely used cloud computing techniques and applications."
Brown writes:
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.
Congratulations to the Open AFS creators Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael L. Kazar, Robert N. Sidebotham, David A. Nichols, Michael J. West, John H. Howard, Alfred Z. Spector and Sherri M. Nichols, recipients of the ACM Software System Award for developing the Andrew File System (AFS).
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.
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:
Sine Nomine Associates is a proud contributor to the OpenAFS project’s GitHub, the repository of tools, scripts, and code available to the public that makes working with AFS a bit simpler at times. Our team develops and maintains a number of tools that make building and running OpenAFS cells easier, and are proud to contribute this work to the wider OpenAFS community.
For those looking to test OpenAFS code, our team has developed a series of test frameworks available under the Robot Framework test suite:
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.