[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“BMC Software’s Calvin Guidry expects to see Linux running
mission-critical applications sooner rather than later.“The company’s Houston-based general manager of enterprise
systems management says supporting Linux is a strategic initiative
for BMC because it works on platforms as diverse as Intel and IBM’s
mainframe class Z series (formerly S/390).“If I can move from the Intel platform to the Z series with no
modifications to my applications–just a re-compile–I can save
millions of dollars,” he says, adopting a CIO’s point of
view…”