With the launch of the z/Enterprise mainframe platform, IBM set out to reinvent the definition of a mainframe. Now almost a year later, a new worldwide survey of 1,347 mainframe professionals conducted by BMC Software finds that while the core z/Enterprise system itself is being received with enthusiasm, IBM’s efforts to converge mainframe and distributed computing models remain a work in progress.

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