January 11, 2010
Welcome to the new MainframeZone.com Website and to the first edition of my newly-named Bob’s Big Iron Blog!
We are real excited about MainframeZone.com – it is our hope that it will become your first destination for mainframe information. Check it out and let me know how you like it and how we can improve it.
Mainframe Trivia Contest #17
In 1968 IBM shipped the industry’s first hierarchical database management system. What was its name?
- Datacom/DB
- ADABAS
- IDMS
- IMS
(I will randomly select a winner of this Mainframe Trivia Contest #17 who will receive the sweatshirt pictured below. To participate, send an email to me at bob@mainframezone.com with Mainframe Trivia Contest #17 in the Subject line — Don’t forget to state your sweatshirt size.)
Mainframe Trivia Contest #16: Winners Announced
In October 2009 I posted the 16th edition of the Mainframe Trivia Contest when I posed the following question:
During most of three decades (1970s, ’80s, and ’90s) one software company dominated the mainframe performance monitoring niche. Which company?
- SAS
- Candle
- BMC
- Boole & Babbage
Although the majority of the responses to this trivia question selected Candle; in fact, the correct answer is Boole & Babbage.
The winners of the Mainframe Trivia Contest #16 are:
- Bill Porreca
- Rohan Sawant
- Stan (Stawsh) Murawski
