LinuxInsider: IBM Adds Open-Source Agility to Transaction-Processing OS

"Users of Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), IBM's mainframe operating system, seem to have both pride in the OS and an inferiority complex, often referring to it as 'IBM's unknown operating system.' Even IBM called it 'little known' in a press release for its latest version of the system, zTPF.

"IBM in early October announced that it was taking a step toward bringing zTPF to the attention of the next generation of IT workers. With a planned release date of September 30, 2005, zTPF adds features such as 64-bit addressing capability on zSeries servers, but what is most significant is the system's compatibility with Linux. This feature opens the door for many more programmers and administrators who may want to work with it.

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