"What costs three-quarters of a million dollars and comes with a one-year warranty? Why, IBM's eServer zSeries 990 mainframe, of course.
"But after years of dealing with Big Blue, I've learned to shake my head in bemusement at some of the kooky things the company does while I admire the amazing technology it keeps pumping out. "IBM's z990, code named T-Rex, was built by IBM from the silicon up. It was introduced in May as a follow-on to the z900, but this baby is more than just another mainframe. "A clustered z990 can handle about 13 billion transactions a day. The secret to its success will be that it runs Linux as well as its own z/OS and the virtualization software can create thousands of Linux servers in a box the size of a refrigerator." The complete article is at http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/06/23OPreality_1.html and includes some quotes from our own Joe Poole of Boscovs. Mark Post
