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IBM's Newest Mainframe Is All Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-great-taste dept.

dcblogs writes "IBM has released a new mainframe server that doesn't include its z/OS operating system. This Enterprise Linux Server line supports Red Hat or Suse. The system is packaged with mainframe management and virtualization tools. The minimum processor configuration uses two specialty mainframe processors designed for Linux. IBM wants to go after large multicore x86 Linux servers and believes the $212,000 entry price can do it."

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  1. Can't wait to see the support by drachenfyre · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've got an IBM DS300 Fiber SAN with 4 hour support from IBM. It's been broken for 5 1/2 months now while we try to get IBM to fix it (Or at this point, we'd just be happy for the maintenance contract fee to be refunded). We've had about 15+ emails, half the time claiming we haven't responded to them yet and therefore we are the cause of the delay, yet quoting our reply in their message back saying we haven't responded.

    I wouldn't buy another piece of IBM server equipment if you held a gun to my head.