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.
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.
“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 made February 23, 2016 on the Linux Foundation website.