mainframe
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Sales of the z17, the company’s flagship enterprise mainframe designed for the AI age, fell short of its expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Krishna said the launch of the company’s z17 mainframe and the associated software stack in the second quarter ended up being “worse than our expectations” for infrastructure revenue to fall in the low-single-digit range.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“It was a shot to the heart and the chest and the mainframe with Luka,” James told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
In February, IBM stock posted its worst decline in 25 years—tumbling sharply on news that Anthropic had released AI tools that could help with modernizing Cobol, a programming language mainly run on IBM mainframe computers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
I used the code that listed Detective Barrone’s call to my father to wiggle into the Division of Detectives mainframe.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
IBM has reinvented itself many times, transitioning from tabulators and time clocks in its earliest days to personal computers, mainframes and supercomputers and later AI and hybrid cloud computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
While the deal had nothing to do with mainframes, IBM announced an AI-first integrated development environment.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Dynatrace helps customers manage their network of myriad software systems, apps and AI tools residing on multiple cloud platforms, internal networks and mainframes.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Lou Gerstner was the first outsider to take the helm at IBM, the storied firm that once looked so dominant in computer mainframes that the Justice Department spent foolish years trying to break it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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