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See You at SHARE in Washington, DC February 23-27Booth #322 2025 is a milestone year for SHARE: the 70th anniversary of the world’s oldest computer user group. Started in Los Angeles by programmers of the IBM 704 system in 1955, it evolved into a major community for enterprise computing, and seven decades later remains a […]
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Company plans multiple acquisitions in IBM z and IBM Power Sectors in 2025 January 29, 2025 08:37 PM Eastern Standard Time MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Izzi Software today announced that it has completed the acquisition of ColeSoft, a Virginia-based developer of debugging products for software engineers and support staff working on IBM mainframes, and is currently exploring numerous other acquisitions in […]
The Legacy: How Mainframe Innovator David Cole Turned to Izzi to Ensure the Long-Term Success of ColeSoft
Working as a programmer at Yale University in the late 1970s, David Cole developed the tool that would become z/XDC. A decade later, he founded ColeSoft, turning z/XDC into a powerful, interactive tool for developing and testing Assembler, C/C++, and Metal C language programs in the z/OS operating system. In 2024, Cole sold ColeSoft to […]
Running the World, One Mainframe at a Time
The business world changed forever on April 7, 1964, when IBM introduced the System/360, the first mainframe computer for general business. Since then, mainframes have been the most reliable and powerful computing systems for major verticals including banking, finance, healthcare, government, utilities, air travel, and more. As technology advances, the mighty mainframes that help power […]