The work is fulfilling, the tools are state-of-the-art, and demand for mainframe-literate developers has never been greater If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry buzz ...

A lot has changed at Compuware Corp. since its sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC for $2.4 billion last year. The mainframe software maker drastically cut release cycles as part of an ...

IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make its mainframe line easier to administer and program, the company said Wednesday. IBM's decades-old mainframe lineage, called System z and ...

Mainframe programming is decidedly un-sexy in the IT industry. But as the baby boomers skilled in maintaining mainframes retire, there is heightened demand for IT graduates to replace them, says The ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. A record number of students from around the world competed in IBM’s latest Master the Mainframe contest, and ...