Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title ""="">. Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an ...

The days when IBM 's mainframe computers held a monopoly on enterprise computing may have ended with the influx of cheaper x86 and Unix servers. But Big Blue is still reinventing its big iron. And now ...

IBM is to launch a high-end Unix server which is a mainframe in disguise, writes Joanne Wallen. Despite a 40% increase in mainframe sales last year, the company has attracted few, if any, new ...

Using the massive memory scope of a mainframe, it’s possible to create a partition, or processing state, where many applications can be run virtually, without need of a dedicated server of their own, ...

Software AG has announced the availability of new mainframe, Unix, Windows and Linux versions of its high-performance database Adabas, offering significantly enhanced performance, reliability and ...

Listserv, the software used to run countless e-mail discussion groups on the Internet, once again is available for IBM mainframes by way of the Linux operating system, Listserv seller L-Soft said ...

Last time, I shared with you a letter from a correspondent in South Africa who is required to restructure what seems to be a large and fairly complex IT environment. His shop includes mainframes, open ...

It has been tried and failed. Symbian was a modern OS, the only micro kernel ever deployed to the masses. Inertia is a thing. You can't just wipe out the legacy of computer history with a simple hand ...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise. With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on ...