Dec 21
IBM and its partners have just reported a 30 percent year-to-year growth of mainframe customers running Linux. I wonder if IBM owes Microsoft licensing costs for using Linux on their mainframes? Maybe one day the SCO saga will repeat itself again. This was covered in a press release over at IBM The linux virtual servers seems to be driving force behind this growth.
“This increase in Linux application development for the mainframe is being driven by a number of factors, including the overwhelming acceptance of partitioned Linux virtual servers — and the associated great price and performance — which is driving new workloads on System z. “
