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 ...

Sun Microsystems and Amdahl IT Services have launched a bid to entice customers of IBM-compatible mainframes to move to Sun's Starcat servers running the Solaris version of Unix, but IBM has dismissed ...

Even as IBM celebrates the 40th anniversary of its mainframe line, the company is finding that competitors in that market haven't stopped trying to siphon money from that multibillion-dollar business.

There is a unique Unix culture, but it developed and flourishes in the research, not business, community. In the research community cost and performance pressures on individuals combined with the ...

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 ...

Francis Feldman recalled last week that as he got closer to choosing a vendor to help his company with a mainframe-to-Unix migration, he was worried. But the IT manager said that after “a sleepless ...

As IBM tries to consolidate its grip on the mainframe market, competitors see an upcoming product transition as a chance to steal some bones from the top dog. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Mainframe Linux can boost application uptime and reduce support costs. But users and analysts recommend acting carefully when choosing which applications to move to the open-source operating system ...

I'm looking for raw data on how long it takes to retrain programmers solely accustomed to Microsoft technologies (Windows, VB, ASP, Back Office products, '¦), to be useful in a Unix oriented one (Unix ...

Francis Feldman recalled last week that as he got closer to choosing a vendor to help his company with a mainframe-to-Unix migration, he was worried. But the IT manager said that after "a sleepless ...