來自CNET的消息，IBM上週三宣佈，在未來的五年，IBM將花費一億美元，用來使它的主機更容易使用。

    “IBM will spend $100m over the next five years to make its mainframe line easier to administer and programme, the company said on Wednesday,” writes Stephen Shankland in CNET News.
    IBM生産了十多年的主機System z運作的z/OS作業系統，跟目前運作Unix，Windows和Linux的主流機型逐漸形成差距。IBM希望通過更現代的用戶界面，可視化軟體工具等來改變這一狀況。

    “IBM’s decades-old mainframe lineage, called System z and running the z/OS operating system, has grown increasingly distant from mainstream computing with the rise of computers running Unix, Windows and Linux. Big Blue is trying to change that with a modern user interface, visual programming tools and other developments, the company said.”