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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 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?
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.