Some of the most critical business systems run by US government agencies are older than many of the IT people who support them, written in mainframe assembler code or COBOL. That might not shock or ...

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 ...

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its “shopping engine,” a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of ...

Some twenty-five hundred to three thousand years ago, a young man named David slew a giant called Goliath. For that he was made king. When it comes to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC), ...

Recently, I mentioned the results of a BMC-sponsored survey that suggested that enterprises weren't running away from their mainframe-based solutions. But representatives from TmaxSoft suggested that ...