NEW YORK — IBM today announced a new mainframe, the z9 — which it says is twice as powerful as the model it replaces — as well as improvements to its enterprisewide virtualization systems. At one time ...

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IBM last week exceeded everyone’s expectations with a new mainframe that is twice as fast as the T-Rex that preceded it. The z9 took 5,000 engineers three years and $1.2 billion to build – something ...

SINGAPORE--IBM's latest mainframe system is a move by the company to rekindle growth in the low-end market, according to Gartner. Launched in Beijing late April, the IBM System z9 Business Class ...

Worldspan LP, an Atlanta-based supplier of Internet-based travel offerings, has selected six new IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (EC) mainframe servers to provide electronic data services that link ...

Many would say the mainframe is a dead technology. Not IBM. The company today announced a $1.2 billion, three-year development effort encompassing 5,000 IBM engineers, software developers, technology ...

To provide reliable, secure management of its customers’ pension information, German Pension Fund Baden-Württemberg operates an extensive pension management system on an IBM System z9 server, running ...

IBM on Wednesday made available a free portal component, which IBM calls a portlet, that lets users link nearly 4,000 Google Gadgets to their WebSphere Portal environments. IBM opens System p servers ...

The acquisition price for the System z9 ranges from "about $100,000" (IBM reported U.S. 2006 price, 2096-A01 model) to millions of dollars for the 2094-S54. (These prices are for new installations.

IBM is attempting to establish SAP on the zSeries mainframe, a platform that has until now been closed to the pervasive ERP system. IBM made an announcement on a Spanish and other Web sites last week, ...

I'm still not sure why everyone in this thread is hung up on why someone would get such a thing. Of course its damn near useless. Of course it will be a bear to get running. I doubt thats the point. I ...