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IBM Announces First Linux-only Mainframes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-step-up dept.

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.

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  1. Awww, poor Microsoft by Mario21 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bill must be crying his eyes out right now.

  2. Nanotechnology Mainframe by slashpunto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If HP would hurry up with the nanotech breakthrough, I could be wearing one of these mainframes on my keychain.

  3. Submission by Syberghost · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submitted a story about the FreeBSD release for this, but for some reason they won't take it...