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IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes
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.
Cyborg_monkey
> what's a server?
A person who if you don't tip them when you leave the restraunt the next time you visit will spill soup all over you?
Or the pile of junk in the corner of the office that makes alot of noise, has various people standing over it and muttering dire curse relating to bill gates and all in the computer industry (assuming os = Windows) or in the case of linux... now where did I leave that boot stone-slate as its so rarley needed...
--- Users are like bacteria -> Each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally gives up and dies.
Is the mainframe wireless? Is it handheld?
(Shot of IBM's new server standing alone in a server room)
ANNOUNCER: "If you think we're overcompensating for something with our really, really big mainframe running linux..."(Cut to shot of a dozen small servers being carted off) "...You're absolutely right."
Lots o' programmers out there waiting for GNOBOL
Yah, Besides which real men toggle the bootloader from the front panel. :)
I know that it doesn't highlight linux so much, but it's nice to see linux dunk the ball once.
I love the part where the 'middleware' character doesn't get any fan mail. No one wants his autograph.... hilarious. Even my computer-stupid girlfriend loves it.
Whoever does those IBM commercials is a genius.
My vote for the Super Bowl:
ANNOUNCER: "Now, All Your Base Are Belong To US!"
[shows a zSeries]
"Imagine a beowulf cluster... of these babies!"
Get your Unix fortune now!