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Calculate your future ROI for software and systems

Murray Cantor, PhD, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, shows how to compute the ROI for software or systems in a way that accounts for both uncertainties in future costs and benefits. His formulas gauge whether the ROI measures value received from money spent or predicted ROI from future investments. More >

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What's new in IBM XL C/C++ for AIX and Linux, Version 12.1
Version 12.1 of IBM XL C/C++ introduces language support to help you port code easily to IBM Power Systems and improved compilation time at commonly used optimization levels. This article describes these and other enhancements.
What's new in IBM XL Fortran for AIX and Linux, Version 14.1
Version 14.1 of IBM XL Fortran introduces language support to help you port code easily to IBM Power Systems and improved compilation time at commonly used optimization levels. This article describes these and other enhancements.
What’s hot at the Innovate 2012 conference (podcast transcript)
In this pre-conference podcast, Rich Knaster gives a rundown of the highlights that will appeal most to software and systems developers. He also lists 11 reasons that they will benefit from attending this year's conference.
How IBM migrated a large GForge installation to Rational environments
Learn how an IBM team successfully used Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) and other APIs to migrate 500 projects and 7500 users from GForge to Rational Team Concert and Rational Asset Manager. This detailed article includes sample code that can be adapted.
Create a multiplatform development environment with Rational Team Concert
Amy Silberbauer offers guidelines for the first step in any modernization strategy for mainframe teams: establishing a modern, multiplatform development environment. She includes best practices for configuring Rational Team Concert teams and streams in a topology for collaborative development.

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Learn more about Jazz today and help drive the future of our products! Jazz is an IBM initiative to help make software delivery teams more effective. Inspired by the artists who transformed musical expression, the Jazz platform is an initiative to transform software delivery, making it more collaborative, productive and transparent.

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Learn more about developing Smarter Products: Today's digital-savvy consumers are driving corporations to re-imagine their business models. The expectation is that the products they produce will integrate into our lives, work in more personal ways, and adapt to our individual needs. IBM can help provide the software, hardware, and services to help you make your products smarter.

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Murali Dhandapani is a technical lead for the ISL Operations Software Engineering Service team in the IBM India Software Lab. He has 10 years of experience in various facets of IT and has gained experience in Linux, UNIX, virtualization, high-availability solutions, and Rational source control management tools. He leads the Rational Jazz products infrastructure projects, as well as high-availability and disaster recovery deployment. He is also a co-author of the "PowerHA SystemMirror Cookbook" for Version 7.1.1 for IBM Redbooks.

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