“Bill Claybrook, an analyst at Boston-based Aberdeen Group
Inc., said the deal was significant as it further legitimized
Linux’s ability to handle the serious applications required by
large enterprise customers.”
“The deal is also very significant for IBM as it now gives them
a new market in which to sell their S/390 mainframes, which almost
never go down. And, with the VM operating system, users can scale
up to a large number of servers and add extra Web hosting capacity
relatively quickly,” he said.”
“Henrik Riedl, chief financial officer at TeliaNet, said in a
prepared statement that it would now take less than 5 minutes to
install a new server, whereas previously this took 5 hours.”