How the mainframe became a surprising platform for innovation
How the mainframe became a surprising platform for innovation SHARE Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing. For others, it serves an important role as long as it sticks to its knitting, handling core transaction processing for banks and other large enterprises. Take a closer look, however, and you’ll see the mainframe is an active platform for innovation, both by the vendors that develop its software and for mainframe customers that are finding a role for Big Iron in their cloud-native plans for innovation. Mainframe i...