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.
March 28th 2008