Out with the new, in with the old. In an inversion of the usually cutting-edge world of Linux, many of the announcements coming out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week will have a retro ...

Market research company Meta Group has something to say about the current growth of Linux on mainframes: Don't believe the hype. In a report published this week, Meta Group said that while mainframes ...

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 ...

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 is offering discounted Linux-focused mainframe bundles to shore up falling revenue. IBM is introducing new Linux-focused mainframe bundles that it says will provide discounts of up to 80% over ...

One of Venezuela's largest banks, Banco Mercantil, buys into IBM's strategy of using Linux on a mainframe computer. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...