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 ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

This is the 7th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

There are few advantages to growing old, but if you were lucky enough to train, back in the hidden midst of times past, in programming languages COBOL or PL/I, you may have landed in later life into a ...