China Pulling the Plug on Foreign Mainframes

(Beijing) -- E-commerce companies and banks in China are scrapping hardware and uninstalling software for mainframe servers made by American suppliers in favor of homegrown brands said to be safe, advanced and a lot less expensive.

The movement has taken special aim at products made by the American companies IBM Corp., Oracle Corp. and EMC Corp. – a tripartite powerhouse with deep roots in corporate IT departments across China.