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Linux On Big Iron
panker writes "eWeek is running an article about a company who converted their IBM mainframe into a Linux email server. "The technical support manager at Winnebago Industries Inc. recently oversaw the deployment of Version 7 of SuSE Linux AG's Linux operating system on an IBM zSeries mainframe to run his company's e-mail server supporting 700 users." "
I love the idea of recycling old high-end machines. I think this could be a big thing in the future... Buying a cheap old mainframe could be cheaper and more reliable then using a PC workstation with server software. Besides it sounds like fun hehe.
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I would tend to agree, but it's also possible they're planning a large acquisition and need the horsepower to support a few thousand new employees instantly.
In these crazy days of "Merge merge merge" you never know...
Who did what now?
What - are you a sysadmin at hotmail?
"...in 1983 Microsoft made an equally risky decision to name its product after a term commonly used in the trade..." wich term ? DoS ? Sorry... could't resist ;)
In TUX we trust
of course, if I finished reading your reply (or bothered to read the article in the first place :) I'd have noticed the "Doesn't want to use Intel" bit, which makes my argument a tad pointless. oh well
It seems more appropriate now.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
If there's a Bourne Shell, I'll see you there
Ah... but where would they get the nifty calendar stuff Exchange gives you? Oh, wait... we were talking about *email* servers
what is Bill G smoking?
Rolls of hundred dollar bills, that's what.
- sig? who is this sig of which you speak?
Nah, they are secretly planning to overtake all the extra bandwidth on the internet by processing high-volumes of spam. I think they code-named the mainframe MCP or something......it might talk too, but I'm not sure.
Just where you can get sun microsystems's view on this (not neccesarily mine.. but perhaps.. but maybe not..)
To quote This Article in computerworld magazine:
Q: Sun has done quite a bit in the way of Linux support, but you really haven't gone the IBM route of marketing Linux-based systems. Why is that?
A: We're the No. 1 Linux appliance server supplier in the world with the Cobalt line [from the acquisition of Cobalt Networks Inc. last year] (see story). We have Linux extensions to Solaris. We just don't think a Linux partition on a mainframe makes a lot of sense. It's kind of like having a trailer park in the back of your estate.