mainframe
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There is a perception that IBM’s mainframe business could be threatened by AI.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
In February, IBM stock posted its worst decline in 25 years—tumbling sharply on news that Anthropic had released AI tools that could help with modernizing Cobol, a programming language mainly run on IBM mainframe computers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
That makes it unlikely that customers will move away from using its mainframes toward decentralized platforms—a potential shift known as mainframe disintermediation—over the next several years.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
He views the mainframe business as “resilient” given examples from IBM of how customers are growing, not shrinking, their workloads.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
A few seconds after my eargear was attached and activated, I began to hear the placid monotone of the HR mainframe, droning instructions and other information.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
