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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...