IBM’s competitors hope to profit from a major mainframe transition that will pressure IBM’s customers to purchase new software and possibly new hardware by the end of September. After that date, ...

Microsoft claims that Linux and UNIX are nothing compared to the Windows operating system in terms of server side solutions. And the perspective offered by the Redmond company reveals not only that ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's estimated that 60% of corporate America's data sits in mainframes. IBM, the premier mainframe vendor, says its big iron business grew 15% last year. And for the first time in more than two ...

In the 1990s and well into the 2000s, if you had mission-critical applications that required zero downtime, resiliency, failover and high performance, but didn’t want a mainframe, Unix was your go-to ...

Only half a dozen years ago, the computing world was abuzz over the seemingly limitless possibilities of the PC client/server networks that were popping up everywhere. As a result, computer-industry ...

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 ...

Sabre Holdings Corp. last week revealed it has begun to migrate its well-known airfare-pricing application from its home on IBM mainframes to Hewlett-Packard NonStop servers. The application migration ...