More than 200 IBM mainframe customers have at least one Linux application in
production on their IBM mainframes, and more than 400 additional enterprises are
evaluating or in the process of implementing production Linux applications.
It used to be: nobody got fired buying IBM, then it was Microsoft.
Now it is: if you don't buy Linux, you just as good as fired.
Talk about taking it one notch up!
~Colman
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The mainframe's reliability and scalability have been widely chronicled for
decades, but it's IBM's support for Linux on its zSeries mainframes that's
bringing in new business. Last year, IBM won 75 new mainframe customers,
breaking a years-long cycle of decline. By year's end, IBM expects to
How three companies are making the most of Linux in their mainframe
environments
http://eservercomputing.com/mainframe/articles/index.asp?id=254
http://crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=35789
Japanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday it will pay technology
giant IBM Corp. $2.05 billion for the bulk of IBM's hard drive assets, which
the companies aim to combine in a joint venture
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyncid=528e=2cid=528u=/ap/20020
The Taiwanese government plans to start an open-source project as early as
next year that could save it as much as $295 million in royalty payments to
Microsoft, according to a report from Taiwan's Central News Agency
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyncid=73e=3cid=73u=/zd/2002060
http://www.esj.com/article.asp?ID=1310283805AM
