In fact, it's not a coincidence that it announced a partnership with Canonical today to build a Linux mainframe running Ubuntu Linux.
We've seen improvements in scale in our zSeries mainframes running Linux, along with networking connectivity and bandwidth and virtualization.
Customers like Boscov's Department Store, a 41-outlet chain based in Reading, Pa., and Mobil Travel Guide have moved applications off Windows servers and onto IBM mainframes running Linux.
Customers like Boscov's Department Store, a 41-outlet chain based in Reading, Pennsylvania, and Mobil Travel Guide have moved applications off Windows servers and onto IBM mainframes running Linux.
In addition to selling Intel -based servers running Linux, as most of its competitors do, IBM went one better last week and announced a $400,000 mainframe that runs nothing but Linux.
The PC counterculture would liberate ordinary people from mainframe computers run by corporate IT departments most of them made by Big Blue.
A single mainframe could run multiple VMs, each with its own OS.
In the early days of the function, the CIO's primary role was selecting hardware and software, ensuring mainframe systems ran properly and, in essence, "keeping the lights on" with technology.
There is no shortage of computers on Japanese workers' desks, but many are still connected to old mainframes and run outdated software.
On the hardware front IBM created teams to optimize its computers, including mainframes, to run Linux.
