When you think of “Ubuntu Linux,” you probably think of the community Linux distribution and the Linux desktop. That’s great, but Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, also wants you to think of Ubuntu as a server and cloud operating system platform. To that end, Canonical has been working with IBM to get Ubuntu certified on IBM’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mainframe'
Mainframe Ubuntu Linux?
September 7th, 2011 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Mainframe · Operating System · Server
Ten years of IBM mainframe Linux
June 8th, 2010 · Comments Off
How things have changed. Back in March 1991 (PDF), Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one-time editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, said, “I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996.” In 2010, while IBM doesn’t break out its profits by individual server line, IBM’s systems and technology group, reported 1st quarter revenue of [...]
Tags: Business · IBM · Infrastructure · Linux · Mainframe · Operating System
IBM brings DB2 and WebSphere to mainframe Linux
December 8th, 2000 · Comments Off
IBM’s using Linux to deliver e-business on mainframes; may prove to be competition for Sun. Yesterday, IBM took a bite out of Sun by replacing Scandinavia’s biggest telecomm and ISP Telia’s Sun Web-hosting servers with a single IBM mainframe S/390 G6 enterprise unit running SuSE Linux under the hood. Today, Big Blue is announcing that [...]
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