If you want to keep data and applications on your mainframe but extend them enterprisewide, consider four options. * Screen scraping or enhanced terminal emulation. In these options, a Web site acts ...

Back in 1991, InfoWorld‘s then Editor in Chief Stewart Alsop predicted the plug would be pulled on the last mainframe in five years. Oops. Eight years after their ...

Computing architectures seem to be attached to a pendulum, swinging every few decades from centralized to de-centralized and back again. The first computing architectures were centralized and ...

The Cupertino, Calif. company is releasing its Rumba mainframe terminal emulator and OnWeb virtualization products together as the Host Access Platform, said Vijay Lal, director of product marketing ...

Flashback to the 1980s, when this remote newspaper office has a problem with a computer terminal that seems undiagnosable, according to a pilot fish in the know. “Most mornings, this terminal has lost ...

Were I work (as a mainframe computer operator) we have some old ibm dumb terminals which are a dream to work on. not the usual 3270 dumb mainframe terminals, which are bleh - these are behemoth 21+" ...

One of the fascinating things about the technology market is how it goes in circles and not only forgets the past but misses the point. For instance, let’s take the recent mega trend: PCs as a Service ...

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies. Back in the early days of business computing, operators accessed the back-end system – such as a mainframe or minicomputer – via a ...