IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes Posted by Hemos on Friday January 25, @08:02AM from the big-step-up dept. A reader writes "The new Z-series mainframe for Linux, which costs $400,000 and is aimed at processing transactions at large businesses, is IBM's first mainframe computer sold without IBM's traditional z/OS mainframe operating system. More info at the IBM zSeries page" This is something that IBM and others of Big Iron vendors of *NIX have said - as Linux grows in maturity, they want to replace their *NIX with Linux. However, there's still work to be done in that area.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/25/1254250 My take: This is good news, really good news! Especially since this represents a possible opportunity for me to work on something other M$ solutions. We have plenty of customers who have Big Iron. I'm pumped! John Hebert ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
