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IBM enhances Linux on S/390 mainframe platform
By Geoffrey Ramos, Senior Writer
AIMING to help users deploy Linux faster and cheaper on the S/390 mainframe
platform, IBM Corp. early this month announced hardware and software
enhancements to the S/390 enterprise server as well as a special pricing
scheme for Linux.
The company announced the IBM S/390 Integrated Facility, a new hardware
feature that allows users to add a dedicated processor for Linux, and the
S/390 Virtual Image facility for Linux, which increases the mainframe's
capacity to handle Linux workloads.
Richard Pape, IBM S/390 marketing manager for Asia Pacific, said that these
enhancements are aimed to help S/390 customers run Linux on the mainframe
quickly, easily, and at lower prices.
"The opportunities today are in enabling customers to integrate their legacy
applications and data to e-business," he said. "A huge amount of data is still
in the mainframe. We want to enable customers to bring this data to the
e-business world."
The S/390 Integrated Facility for Linux, Pape explained, is meant to allow
customers to add processor capacity on their S/390 mainframe and dedicate it
for Linux use.
Pricing will be based, not on processor capacity as is the usual case in
mainframes, but on the cost of the same application running on other IBM Linux
server platforms, officials said.
Leading mainframe software vendors such as BMC Software, Candle, Computer
Associates, Compuware, and SAGA Software, among others have agreed to the new
pricing policy, Pape said.
Pape said that by allowing the addition of processor capacity for Linux on
the mainframe, customers can save on space because there won't be a need to
acquire other servers just to run Linux. Customers can also free up more
resources on the mainframe by getting a separate processor for running Linux.
Another enhancement, the S/390 Virtual Image Facility for Linux, is software
that gives customers another option to run multiple copies of Linux on the
S/390.
Published in the 8/14/00 edition of Computerworld Philippines
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