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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Appleby takes on the behemoths as he predicts the end of the mainframe. We've heard this before. Is now the time? Judge for yourself. Two years ago, I called the HP Superdome out as being as dead ...