来自CNET的消息，IBM上周三宣布，在未来的五年，IBM将花费一亿美元，用来使它的主机更容易使用。

“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生产了十多年的主机System z运行的z/OS操作系统，跟目前运行Unix，Windows和Linux的主流机型逐渐形成差距。IBM希望通过更现代的用户界面，可视化软件工具等来改变这一状况。

“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.”