So: masochism. You might know that it takes its name from 19th-century Austrian nobleman and writer Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch—and specifically from the content of his famous work, Venus in Furs ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

IBM is introducing IBM Bob Premium Package for Z, which integrates and enhances the capabilities of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z, delivering advanced features for enterprise-scale mainframe ...

IBM surpassed consensus on the top and bottom lines, with 9% revenue growth. The company reiterated full-year guidance. The hardware, software and infrastructure provider bought data streaming ...

In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s ...

IBM has begun working with chipmaker Arm to develop what it calls dual-architecture hardware to provide flexibility when running enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive workloads.

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International Business Machines said Tuesday it closed its roughly $11 billion acquisition of the data-streaming company Confluent. The deal, first announced in December, is intended to help ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

The IBM campus in North Carolina. In late February, the company experienced a stock market shock it hadn’t felt in 25 years. N&O file photo AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI ...

IBM has been a powerhouse in the business equipment industry for decades. It has a long track record of success, even in difficult times. So, when the news broke that Anthropic may be able to disrupt ...

Shares of International Business Machines (IBM) were hammered this week after Anthropic (ANTHRO) announced its Claude Code tool could be used to efficiently modernize systems running on COBOL, a ...