IBM has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

What IBM created 40 years ago was a huge contraption only for businesses, but it led to the kind of computers many people cannot live without today. It also led to an explosion of growth in what used ...

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 ...

John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

Sun Microsystems, IBM and Sine Nomine Associates this week demonstrated the OpenSolaris code base running on the IBM mainframe, Sun and IBM said. The demonstration at the Gartner Data Center ...