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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. Imagine a... by supabeast! · · Score: 1, Troll

    Can you even build a beowulf cluster of these?

  2. Mainframe? by SIGFPE · · Score: 1, Troll

    What's a mainframe? Never heard of it.

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