DJ’s Weblog

Cloud computing, virtual machines. It’s big business. Amazon has its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which provides “resizable compute capacity in the cloud“, Microsoft has Azure, providing “on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet” and Google’s offering is App Engine which offers “the ability to build and host web [...]

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As an ex MVS chap (I managed VSAM (DL/1) based SAP R/2 systems on IMS DB/DC at the start of my career) I was amazed some months back to find Hercules, the open source S/370 emulator.
So imagine my delight when I revisited Hercules the other day, to find a chap called Volker [...]