On this episode of The Main Scoop, co-hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman are joined by John Mertic, Director, Open Mainframe Project to discuss how fundamental "open" approaches are to growing business, and innovating with technologies across platform ecosystems. They also provide insights and reveal what's going on with open mainframe projects, how organizations are generating new value, and what the future of open looks like. Our conversation also covered the following:

• A dive into an “open first” approach and how this strategy is the best to modernize the mainframe
• A look into the business drivers that are changing the platform ecosystem
• An overview of the Linux Foundation and the Open Mainframe project

It was a great conversation and one you don’t want to miss. Like what you’ve heard? Check out Episode One of The Main Scoop and Episode Two of the Main Scoop, and be sure to subscribe to never miss an episode of The Main Scoop series.