Linux on Mainframes: Ten Years Ago, Who Could Have Imagined?
IBM may be a big, lumbering multi-billion-dollar corporation that is slow to turn, but boy, when IBMers get imaginative, they get imaginative. Steve Craggs of Lustratus Research recently marveled on what has become a fast-growing phenomenon: deployments of the open source Linux operating systems on mainframes. “Five or ten years ago, this sort of question [...]
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