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CNET News: IBM Aims for User-Friendly Mainframes

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Stephen Shankland
Oct 6, 2006

“IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make
its mainframe line easier to administer and program, the company
said Wednesday.

“IBM’s decades-old mainframe lineage, called System z and
running the z/OS operating system, has grown increasingly distant
from mainstream computing with the rise of computers running Unix,
Windows and Linux. Big Blue is trying to change that with a modern
user interface, visual programming tools and other developments,
the company said…”


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