[KLUG Advocacy] T-Rex Lives!

Adam Williams advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
29 May 2003 15:21:06 -0400


http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0526trex.html

IBM announced the new z990, *TRIPLING* the throughput of its
predecessor!  You can stuff my stocking with one of these any Christmas
morning.

But more relevantly, the article contains some interesting stats on
Linux on big iron -

"Brawn aside, IBM says the real value of the z990 is that it can handle
new workloads, such as managing hundreds or thousands of virtual Linux
servers within one box. For that purpose, the z990 can be divided into
30 logical partitions. 

Linux is an increasingly important contributor to IBM's mainframe
business. Shipments of Linux on the mainframe grew 45% between 2001 and
2002, and Linux systems accounted for 17% of IBM's mainframe revenue in
2002, according to Gartner. 

Today, more than 200 IBM mainframe customers have at least one Linux
application in production on their IBM mainframes, and more than 400
additional companies are evaluating or in the process of implementing
production Linux applications, the firm says."