News Archives: Commentary

April 24, 2009

Welcome to TurboHercules!

When I began writing Hercules in May 1999, it was intended to be a system programmer’s plaything. Little did I expect that, 10 years later, and thanks to the power of open source, Hercules would have grown into a robust, production-capable platform comparable in performance to a low-end modern mainframe.

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August 27, 2009

Random Thoughts from SHARE – Denver

This week the IBM faithful are gathered in Denver at the semi-annual SHARE Conference.  I have been attending a cross section of sessions to get an overall idea of the state of the mainframe world today.  What follows are some of the bits of information that I have gathered so far.

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March 09, 2009

TurboHercules News and Commentary

In this section of the website, we will provide a place to post news and information of interest to the growing Hercules community.

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