SEOUL, KOREA, September 04, 2001 - IBM and DreamBall Co., a Korean on-line game service provider, today announced that Dreamball has selected IBM to build an interactive computing infrastructure, powered by the z900 running Linux and "Shark" storage server, to enable its online soccer game "Dream Soccer."
DreamBall, a first-time mainframe customer, selected the IBM z900 over competing alternatives from Sun and Compaq, based on the performance, reliability and total cost of ownership of the z900. Dreamball also chose the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (code named "Shark") and IBM tape backup drives to manage and safeguard critical game data. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/news/pressreleases/2001/dreamba ll_pr_090401.html
