The company found that traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) could not deliver the performance levels required. France Telecom has chosen to place Versant's object database management system (ODBMS), enJin, at the heart of its...
He also questioned Sun's ability to migrate customers claiming Sun's rehosting technology can only do "half the job". Sun Microsystems believes it can steal IBM's mainframe customers with its newly launched high-end server.
Ports slid towards chaos last week as a major electronic customs clearance system tried to migrate from its mainframe to a Windows-based system. Community Network Services announced today at 13:00 that it had reverted to its mainframe system and...
Market researcher IDC said CA, which also sells mainframe-specific databases, garnered 0.4 per cent of the relational and object database market in 2003 and that its share shrank two per cent last year.
Rasmussen said he was just as concerned about using Linux on mainframe computers. Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility...
The money will be spent in the "next couple years" on tasks such as training customers, tuning their software for mainframes and helping them migrate computing infrastructure, said Jim Stallings, who in January took over as head of the mainframe...