Even as IBM celebrates the 40th anniversary of its mainframe line, the company is finding that competitors in that market haven't stopped trying to siphon money from that multibillion-dollar business.

Big Blue plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...

IBM's long-standing mainframe has come under siege from cheaper rivals that provide similar levels of reliability, but Big Blue is sparing no effort to ensure the platform stays relevant. Rajnish ...

It has been tried and failed. Symbian was a modern OS, the only micro kernel ever deployed to the masses. Inertia is a thing. You can't just wipe out the legacy of computer history with a simple hand ...

Commvault has come up in discussions as an alternative to TSM as our primary backup solution. <BR><BR>For the larger enterprise folks out there in a very mixed environment that include AIX, ESX, ...

If IBM actually were to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., the world’s largest maker of Unix servers would take over the No. 2 vendor. Unix servers may not be getting as much attention as Sun’s Java and MySQL ...

As IBM tries to consolidate its grip on the mainframe market, competitors see an upcoming product transition as a chance to steal some bones from the top dog. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...