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• n  a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room
• n  (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

• More important, sales of large IBM mainframe computers, which account for about 70% of the company's $50 billion in revenues, are being hurt by archrival Digital Equipment Corp .
• Despite its size, however, the mainframe does its work all but invisibly, behind the closed doors of a special, climate-controlled room.
• Created as attachments to enable refrigerator-size mainframe computers to serve many clients at once, servers now have become the main attraction--helping firms of all sizes do .

• mainframe computer
• central processing unit
• CPU
• C.P.U.
• central processor
• processor

News & Articles

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• Compuware APM for Mainframe Enhanced With Greater Functionality - More Customers to See Mainframe Savings
  DETROIT -- Compuware Corporation , the technology performance company, today announced notable new enhancements to Compuware APM for Mainframe, the industry's leading 24/7 end-to-end transaction management ...
  June 19, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Compuware Rolls Out ‘Enhanced’ APM for Mainframe
  Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq:CPWR) announced enhancements to Compuware APM for Mainframe, transaction management software spanning the edge of the Internet, through distributed systems and into mainframe environments.
  June 19, 2013 - CBS Detroit
• BluePhoenix Shakes up Mainframe Migration Market With New Tech Platform, Services
  ATLAS Platform Offers Unique Solutions for Customers on Legacy and Mainframe Technologies
  June 18, 2013 - Marketwire

Quotes

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• Steve Wozniak in Sci-Tech Today
  One of the major pioneers behind the home computer revolution, Wozniak said the marketplace "has not seen such capacity for innovation and radical transformation since the mainframe computer was replaced by the home computer."
• Bill Hilf in InfoWorld
  By working with Micro Focus we are improving the value attained by mainframe customers choosing to go with the Windows platform for their modernization strategy, and improving the ROI helping them reduce the costs of their deployment efforts,...
• Ma Ying-jeou in 940 News
  There really is a Sony that lives inside of us, and there's an aspiring Yahoo! or Google that lives inside of us, and there's an IBM mainframe-software business that lurks inside of us, and there's a desktop-software business - where we don't have... Steve Ballmer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGT7DyhzQ3h00Y6kfNCQOU0mgtXOA Seattle Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003157671_microsoft28.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE39H7yxlJ7RgYASh9T85JYn9jryw Jul 28, 2006 60538 80841 mainland When we improve relations with the mainland, we will also strengthen our security ties with Washington," Ma told reporters.