[ Thanks to Chris L.
Mason for this link. ]
“IBM has replaced Sun Microsystems at Telia, a Scandanavian
telecommunications customer that will use Big Blue’s mainframe
running Linux instead of 70 Sun servers.”
“IBM has been pushing Linux across its four server product
lines, the most expensive of which is the mainframe zSeries,
formerly known as the S/390 line. Using “partitioning” software, a
mainframe can be split into several independent computers that
share the same hardware. IBM and others have demonstrated running
tens of thousands of Linux computers on a single mainframe.”
“At Telia, a G6 mainframe with more than 1,500 virtual Linux
servers will replace 70 existing Sun Unix servers, IBM plans to
announce Thursday. The Linux servers will host Telia business
customers’ Web sites.”