Sentence examples for mainframe service from inspiring English sources

The downturn hit other companies in the sector: smaller rival BMC Software also also disappointed investors with its 2013 outlook due to lower license bookings at its enterprise services management and mainframe service management business.

"Our message was this is a skill you can acquire and still use all the modern tools," said Jeremy Lamb, vice president for mainframe services at Schwab.

The commission also said it was opening a second, separate investigation on "its own initiative into I.B.M.'s alleged discriminatory behavior towards competing suppliers of mainframe maintenance services".

The second inquiry, opened on the European Commission's own initiative, concerns claims of discriminatory behavior toward competing suppliers of mainframe maintenance services.

Only IBM, with its huge mainframe and services businesses, seems able to defend itself as Dell turns once-profitable products into commodities and forces competitors into a cost-cutting game they cannot win.

The European Commission is also expected to reach a settlement with International Business Machines over complaints from competing suppliers of mainframe computer maintenance services, said Mr. Petit.

(While many mainframes still in service work with punch cards, the actual reader and sorter machines have become relics and are typically refurbished or rented).

But IBM ultimately abandoned PCs and now chugs along on its mainframe franchise and services business.

Its services include mainframe server outsourcing, network outsourcing, desktop outsourcing and cloud services.

The commission said that it would examine whether I.B.M. had shut out rival mainframe software vendors and service providers.

Former Canadian computer engineer founded software company in 1976 to service IBM mainframe computers after fortune cookie promised his wish would come true.