Migraine in the mainframe: Unisys reports more losses

Mainframe maker Unisys posted yet more disappointing results for, recording a net loss of $9.6m (£6m) for its third quarter results. Revenue was $739m (£477m), down 16 per cent on last year. Anthony Miller, analyst at TechMarketView, noted the firm's hardware revenue halved and services revenues declined by 8 per cent. " …

[Anonymous Coward]

"transformative cost actions"

new one to add to the Bullshit Bingo card

[hammarbtyp]

Repeat the old money stream

Maybe they can try and licence GIF's again...

[Gis Bun]

Unisys is still around. I though they went belly under years ago.

[MotionCompensation]

They're still belly under. It will be over when they go belly up.

[Sceptic Tank]

When I was a lad

I was also surprised that they're still around.

Back in the day I worked on a UniSys A-Series painframe. Did my COBOL coding in that CANDE abomination. RemoteSPO.

Where's the The Scream icon and hand me my puke bucket..

[stungebag]

Re: When I was a lad

@sceptic tank

I think I know where you went wrong. COBOL on any system is a pain. And if you were using Cande on its own without Editor then you're very old, a glutton for punishment - or you worked for a very tight-fisted shop.

Remotespo's a red herring as it provides a remote console environment.

I'd very happily go back to writing the excellent Burroughs Algol on a Clearpath using Editor right now.