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El Reg reports
Attachmate, the software shop that headhunted Novell and SUSE Linux, is itself being bought out by Micro Focus International.
The mainframe and COBOL specialist is acquiring Attachmate Group from its parent company Wizard in a deal calculated at $2.3bn before costs.
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Attachmate gives MicroFocus access to SUSE and Novell, business units bought by the company in 2010 for $2.2bn. Novell owned SUSE Linux, which it had bought in 2003 for $210m. Under Attachmate, the two were broken apart.
putting 882 patents in its Linux portfolio up for sale to a consortium backed by Microsoft.
SUSE is chief steward of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server while Novell has been re-shaped to sell end-point management and collaboration software.
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(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Wednesday September 17 2014, @06:36PM
The MVS 3.8 turnkey system is so obsolete that if you learned it you wouldn't learn anything you could use on modern z/OS. I know 3.8 doesn't have ISPF (the full-screen stuff - have fun using TSO commands without it), and I can't remember if it has JES2 or the older HASP. Even recently, z/OS is getting so heavily dependent on OMVS (the POSIX subsystem) that you basically have to know UNIX, too. But I said goodbye to all that and never looked back, especially after the shock treatments. It is getting hopeless. No one can grasp it all any longer, so IBM is releasing pre-built systems. (That's one reason I wouldn't get into mainframes if I was young - there's just less work to do these days, causing high unemployment, and you're competing with people who have decades of experience. Will be a long time before that works its way out of the pipeline.)
One thing that UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD/etc can't really teach you is file allocation. On MVS/zOS you have to know ahead of time how big your file will be, and what record format it will use. DEC VMS had a little of that, but almost all modern operating systems have abandoned this concept. Rightfully so. (You can, of course, code your own file formats that use fixed-length records. But you have to code your own utilities, too.) But you haven't used a real operating system until you've had to calculate blocking sizes, record lengths, extents, and so on. That stuff is a whole different world.
And the most important thing ... wait, what's that sound? Oh, a drone just landed. With my same-day delivery package! Let me open it... yes! A 64-ounce bottle of bleach!
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