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." "

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I thought so too...

[WinPimp2K]

so I Read The Fine Article:

• he saved over 120K bucks vs an MSFT Exchange Server solution (for 700 users - what is Bill G smoking?)
• It is using less than ten per cent of the mainframe's capacity, they do plan to migrate other server jobs currently on discrete machines to the mainframe
• Yes they are already a mainframe shop. One mainframe is far more capable than a desktop server. Given a choice between supporting a single mainframe or a couple of hundred desktop servers, the mainframe costs less
• The article covers a lot more than just this one instance, but it has a nice number to start with - that big dollar savings