I'm going to be starting college close to the end of next year so i was trying to figure out what area of computer technology i wanted to really delve into.So i started doing searches on mainframe ...

1952 – “Amazing" Grace Hopper begins development of natural language programming languages that would lead to Flowmatic, the precursor of Cobol. 1959 – First Cobol specifications completed in December ...

IBM officials said they hope to breathe new life into the company’s mainframe series with new software tools and developer initiatives for creating interconnected business processes and applications.

DETROIT -- Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq:CPWR) announced the launch of a mainframe computing education and summer internship program with Wayne State University's College of Engineering. The program is ...

IBM’s System z is known for its versatility, supporting a range of operating systems and languages. Now, it is reported that Google’s open source Go programming language also now runs within the ...

Ensono, an end-to-end managed services provider, has acquired ExperSolve, a mainframe modernization company. The addition of ExperSolve further expands Ensono’s mainframe optimization and ...

Mainframes are still widely in use at banks, insurance companies, and other big businesses that handle lots of credit card transactions. You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of ...

Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.