“The Schumann Management Consultancy AG and ID-PRO AG have
announced a promising co-operative venture to allow for the full
implementation of GNU/Linux applications on the S/390
platform.“
“The co-operation combines the delivery of consultancy services
and technical support for the deployment of the Open-Source
operating system on the IBM-Parallel Enterprise Server, for which,
in May 2000, the operating system, Linux/390, was officially
released.”
“In the contexts of e-commerce and server consolidation,
particularly, the combination of Linux’s acknowledged strengths,
such as flexibility and stability, allied to the maximum
availability, security and performance of IBM, significantly
out-performs other high-performance computers. The demands on IT
will increase dramatically with the proliferation of e-commerce.
Linux, combined with the S/390, is the optimal solution to meet
such demands and challenges. In combination with the large
computer, Linux will successfully combine all the advantages of the
Unix and Mainframe world” stated Christoph Laube, Head of IT
Infrastructure Services and Procurement with Schumann AG.”