z/VSE: The forgotten operating system
In the world of mainframe operating systems, z/VSE is often overshadowed by better-known siblings such as z/OS. But z/VSE has…
Runtime Fees: The Hidden Tax in Your Tech Stack
In COBOL environments, runtime-based licensing imposes recurring costs each time an application is executed—costs that persist well beyond the initial…
Vikas Sinha: Strategy, Stewardship, and Service – Influential Mainframer
A New Mainframe BelieverVikas Sinha nearly turned down the opportunity that would define the second half of his career. Before…
Mainframe Modernization is the Climate Change of IT – Influential Mainframer Misty Decker
Misty Decker didn’t plan to build a career evangelizing mainframes. She wanted to be a research mathematician. But grad school…
New PopUp Mainframe Market Survey Lifts Lid on Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
Mainframe enterprise software company PopUp Mainframe has released the initial findings of its 2025 Mainframe Market Survey, which reveals the latest…
Smarter Tech Decisions: Why “and” Wins Over “or”
In technology, we often present choices as binary decisions: replace or keep, mainframe or cloud. But what if this either/or…
Bridging Generations: Vaughn Marshall on Modernizing Mainframe App Development and Empowering the Next Wave of Developers
Vaughn Marshall, Product Manager at Broadcom‘s Mainframe Software division, shared his insights on the modernization of app development within the…
Improving the Mainframe User Experience: A Company’s Journey to a Modern Web Interface
Marsh McLennan’s journey to transform a crucial 3270 application into a modern web interface Modernizing business applications is a critical…