Big Iron Keeps on Trucking, Part 1

So old-school uncool, the mainframe computer — the workhorse of the IT world running the majority of today’s global business transactions, the mission-critical platform of choice for virtually every member of the Global 2000 as well as local, state and federal governments — is said to be going the way of other ’60s artifacts like the vinyl LP. Distributed client/server computing looks to be replacing the mainframe as the core of business. Companies are migrating workloads off their mainframes because mainframe technologies have percolated down to distributed systems.