16 Dec
2000
16 Dec
'00
1:39 p.m.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Neil Cherry wrote:
Never let anyone convince you that the Mainframe is
dead. Many of my
customers were about to retire a lot of big iron for NT machines when
they suddenly realized that the Mainframe could play server. They then
figured out it could do a lot more. So we have come full circle so to
speak.
IBM has been pushing Linux on it's S/390 (I think that's the right one)
where you can run thousands of virtual Linux servers on the one mainframe.
In the article I read on it several months ago, someone was able to
instantiate something like 44,000 virtual Linux boxes.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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