Back in 1991, InfoWorld‘s then Editor in Chief Stewart Alsop predicted the plug would be pulled on the last mainframe in five years. Oops. Eight years after their ...

Computing architectures seem to be attached to a pendulum, swinging every few decades from centralized to de-centralized and back again. The first computing architectures were centralized and ...

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.’s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that’s been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years.

The Cupertino, Calif. company is releasing its Rumba mainframe terminal emulator and OnWeb virtualization products together as the Host Access Platform, said Vijay Lal, director of product marketing ...