Still saving up for your own mainframe computer? IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems.

Linux may be free, but users shouldn’t overlook the costs associated with bringing it to the mainframe. That’s according to analysis delivered by Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information Group Inc. at ...

Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving ...

The German Federal Finance Office has implemented what its technology supplier, IBM Corp., is calling one of the largest Linux-based mainframe deployments in Europe. The Berlin-based authority has ...

IBM said the two new machines, the iSeries for small businesses and the more powerful and costly zSeries, can replace racks of smaller server computers made by rivals like Dell Computer Corp. DELL.O ...

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 ...