IBM Launches Linux 'Baby' Mainframe Oct 23, 2008, 04 :31 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5819 reads) (Other stories by Jon Brodkin)
"IBM has optimised the mainframe for Linux, working with Red Hat and Novell to fix bugs and ensure that all drivers run solidly with the Linux operating system, says System z marketing vice president Karl Freund. IBM executives also decided the mainframe simply wasn't cheap enough to convince customers to run new Linux workloads."