“A European telco and ISP has dealt a major blow to Sun
Microsystems, kicking out its 70 web hosting servers in favour of
one IBM mainframe and Shark storage server, both running Linux.
Telia, Scandinavia’s largest telco and ISP, will use the system to
host and run its business and consumer internet services
operations. It is the first European company to deploy a major
commercial IT system on Linux.”
“Bill Claybrook, research director for Linux and open source
software at the Aberdeen Group, said there are “huge savings from a
systems management point of view, security and the ability to
respond quickly to new customers. Having Linux on S/390 means that
there is only one large system to take care of, which almost never
goes down,” he said. “Telia can create new web hosting sites
in minutes rather than hours.”
“Another advantage is improved data access and security. “The
web servers can access the data in no time because they are both on
the S/390. They do not have to access the data over a Lan,” said
Claybrook.”