Listserv, the software used to run countless e-mail discussion groups on the Internet, once again is available for IBM mainframes by way of the Linux operating system, Listserv seller L-Soft said ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM is to launch a high-end Unix server which is a mainframe in disguise, writes Joanne Wallen. Despite a 40% increase in mainframe sales last year, the company has attracted few, if any, new ...

Only half a dozen years ago, the computing world was abuzz over the seemingly limitless possibilities of the PC client/server networks that were popping up everywhere. As a result, computer-industry ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commvault has come up in discussions as an alternative to TSM as our primary backup solution. <BR><BR>For the larger enterprise folks out there in a very mixed environment that include AIX, ESX, ...

It has been tried and failed. Symbian was a modern OS, the only micro kernel ever deployed to the masses. Inertia is a thing. You can't just wipe out the legacy of computer history with a simple hand ...

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 ...