Still saving up for your own mainframe computer? IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems.

One of Venezuela's largest banks, Banco Mercantil, buys into IBM's strategy of using Linux on a mainframe computer. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Linux may be free, but users shouldn’t overlook the costs associated with bringing it to the mainframe. That’s according to analysis delivered by Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information Group Inc. at ...