The British IT industry publication, The Register, recently reported on IBM's announcement of 2016 development goals for the Open Mainframe Project. The announcement was made at the 2016 IBM InterConnect.
From Penguinistas slide into a big, blue mainframe ocean:
The Open Mainframe Project, launched in August 2015, has announced its development goals for 2016.
Much of the public believes that the mainframe is a dinosaur stuck in the "Mad Men" days, but programs such as MongoDB, which supports Linux on the mainframe, proves them wrong. A recent article, published on Linux.com, discusses the latest developments in mainframe databases.
From the article, Running MongoDB and Other Open Source Apps on the Mainframe: