We’d had a Unisys mainframe here since the late ’70s or early ’80s, and we were at the end of our current five-year licensing contract. We either had to purchase a new mainframe or go to a new ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) now derives most of its revenue from software and consulting, the decades-old mainframe business is still an important part of the century-old tech ...

Mainframe workload modernization startup Mechanical Orchard Inc. said it’s hoping to gain more enterprise traction today after closing on a $24 million early-stage funding round led by Emergence ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Technology trends come and go, but the old mainframe never seems to completely disappear. At Oracle's OpenWorld conference here Tuesday, the mainframe computer figured prominently.

In a massive technological undertaking that analysts said will change the way airlines do business, Sabre Holdings Corp. is shedding its decades-old mainframe-based system. Sabre announced last week ...

I got an early-morning laugh out of this post on Timothy Sipple's Mainframe blog: Will the popular press ever get it right about mainframe-hosted applications? I'm still waiting, after seeing this one ...

Meanwhile, over at the Mainframe Blog, Timothy Sipples makes his case: Industry old timers still tell stories of the IBM mainframe salesmen who could sell three systems by February and spend the next ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The US Federal Government’s vast scope encompasses the nation’s core processes and functions. However, despite its critical role, it ...

Postal Service IT officials have upgraded the service's 15-year-old mainframe system to handle more transactions and lower the cost of operating the system. If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and ...

The Vermont Department of Labor in Montpelier used to be home to the mainframe computer that runs the state’s unemployment benefits system. Now, the system runs on a much more modern mainframe in New ...