See: "http://linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2003080100326NWSVSW";
"Two years ago, when IBM Corp caught the Linux bug real bad, it promised
to get the open source Linux operating system running on all of its
platforms, to get its core middleware and databases running on it, and use
Linux as a kind of common glue holding the disparate eServer family of
incompatible products together. With the "Blue Ice" Integrated Platform for
eBusiness, IBM has put forth a blueprint that shows customers and resellers
how to implement Linux on all of its eServers and gives them installation
scripts that can cut down the installation of infrastructure servers by as
much as 75%.
"Blue Ice was rolled out on the xSeries Intel-based server platform in
May 2002. This was a natural enough place to start, since X86 servers
accounted for then (and still do) the largest number of IBM's Linux server
shipments. But being a member of the eServer family means getting all the
same goodies, so in January 2003, IBM rolled it out on the zSeries
mainframes, which run Linux in logical partitions. This week, at the
LinuxWorld trade show in San Francisco, IBM is rolling out Blue Ice on its
pSeries RISC/Unix servers as well as on the iSeries OS/400 servers..."
