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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fujitsu has announced it is to end mainframe sales in 2030, with support due cease in 2035. It also announced plans to discontinue its UNIX SPARC servers in 2029, and end support in 2034. Affected ...

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 ...

Fujitsu has quietly revealed its plans to shutter both its mainframe and Unix server system business by the end of this decade. In a notice posted to the Japanese IT giant's website, the company ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Bank of New York, the mainframe is still king. Nearly three quarters of all transactions are processed on big iron, and 20% to 25% of the remaining transactions rely on the mainframe for at least ...