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Linux On Big Iron

Posted by Hemos on from the success-stories-abound dept.

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." "

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  1. Re:Overkill??? by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can support 700 users on a decent dual desktop system with Linux, what's this guy thinking?

    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...
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  2. Re:So how well does it run? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What - are you a sysadmin at hotmail?

  3. I feel compelled to quote Scott McNealy by AnalogBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.