But that could change very soon, because the suits at IBM have bowed to the ever-increasing demand for a Linux port to the S/390 mainframe. Ninety-nine per cent of electronic transactions take place on Linux.
Sun Microsystems believes it can steal IBM's mainframe customers with its newly launched high-end server. But the company claims its capabilities will attract Big Blue's mainframe customers. Ian Meakin, UK product marketing manager Computer Systems...
They say the constant application of new techniques to the old fashioned mainframe has made it more efficient than ever. They like Linux and have adapted it to run many times on one big mainframe. The mainframe people invented it.
In another sign the mainframe computer is coming back to life, IBM is set to announce today that a customer is using its zSeries machines and Linux for a major consolidation of business applications. With a total of 36 processors running the Linux...
Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died on Thursday. In the 1960s, Evans led a team that developed a new class of mainframe computers called the System/360 or S/360, which allowed different...
He said: "Some clients will see it as a positive thing because of the increased scale but there may be negative implications for others who see it removing focus from the day-to-day services they receive.