Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing. For others, it serves an important role as long as it sticks to its knitting, handling core transaction processing ...

The new Open Mainframe Project COBOL Working Group aims to clarify and encourage the continued use of COBOL applications on the mainframe and beyond by providing insight, resources and information to ...

The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, has organized its membership, including ...

The drive to combine the mainframe computer and the cloud – at first sight perhaps seen as an attempt to join chalk with cheese’ – continues to gather pace, and is attracting new players that are ...

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You may have been told that mainframes are a relic — old, outdated and ready for replacement. Based on my experience in the space, this is one of the enduring myths of modern technology. For example, ...

The first mainframes were behemoth machines that could occupy entire city blocks. Since then, the mainframe has compacted and evolved into a cutting edge state—similar to other technologies modernized ...