mainframe

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“The mainframe serves as the backbone for the world’s largest enterprises managing the most complex and critical workloads,” Woodring wrote, ticking off banking systems, airline reservations, and transaction processing as a few examples.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

“IBM’s customers have had ample opportunities to migrate off of mainframe and are sticking with the platform given inherent advantages.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

“The idea of shifting off of mainframe is not a new concept,” he said in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

His idea for PeopleSoft came when he was sitting on a beach in Maui, “thinking about how to take advantage of this shift for the mainframe enterprise software company I was with at the time.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The university’s enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast white room, looking, as one faculty member remembers, “like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell