Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron > Mainframe computers have long been the province of IT druids in huge > corporate data centers and goverment agencies like NASA and the CIA. > Now, though, the mainframe is heading towards a much larger potential > market.In IBM's latest effort to keep Big Iron relevant in a > fast-changing computing world, it's retooling the technology for > small- and medium-size businesses. The new z9 Business Class > mainframe, released this spring, can be bought for as little as > $100,000. Think of it as Little Iron. And small outfits who can't > afford to buy a mainframe can pay by the drink by using IBM's > on-demand services. All the things IBM mainframes can now do will > surprise you. Example: As the server for Taikodom, a massively > multiplayer online game being developed by Brazilian upstart Hoplon > Infotainment. It's a company with just 50 employees. I don't want > this to sound like an ad for mainframes (not my role or inclination) > but this cool application caught my fancy. > http://blogs.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/07/not_your_dads_m.html#more
While z/VM isn't explicitly mentioned in the blog entry, I do suspect that the Linux images the gamers are using are VM hosted. Who was it that first ran StarTrek on VM or TSO? I guess they were really ahead of their time. :-) DJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
