The company is betting big on open source in the enterprise: “Fifteen years ago IBM surprised the industry by putting Linux on the mainframe, and today more than a third of IBM mainframe clients are ...

The mainframe, the hardware stalwart that has existed for decades, is continuing to be a force in the modern era. Among the vendors that still build mainframes is IBM, which today announced the latest ...

IBM said the two new machines, the iSeries for small businesses and the more powerful and costly zSeries, can replace racks of smaller server computers made by rivals like Dell Computer Corp. DELL.O ...

IBM is introducing new Linux-focused mainframe bundles that it says will provide discounts of up to 80 percent over previous offerings. IBM’s mainframe business has struggled in 2009, with ...

International Business Machines' mainframe computer, first introduced more than 50 years ago, remains an integral part of many companies' IT infrastructures. Visa, for example, uses IBM's mainframes ...

IBM and corporate software powerhouse SAP have made plans to bring SAP's software to Big Blue mainframes running Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

IBM is looking to boost its mainframe business with a Linux push that includes new hardware, software and the founding of the Open Mainframe Project. The company is also contributing mainframe code to ...

Still saving up for your own mainframe computer? IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems.

IBM and Red Hat are broadening a partnership to promote Linux on Big Blue's mainframe computers. The two companies said this week they're packaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with IBM's Integrated ...

Haligan notifed me that, further adding to Linux's viability as an operating system in corporate environments, IBM has introduced a line of mainframe computers that exclusively run ...