UPDATE: With IBM leading the charge, the corporate world is finding a space for the alternative OS. While enthusiasts look forward to mainstreaming it on the desktop, Linux is gaining in the bigger picture. ZDNet Australia brings you the latest news from LinuxWorld 2002.
Mainframes should take up the biggest space at this year's LinuxWorld as the OS breaths new life into the old industry standby. Corporations are beginning to take notice .
IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments.
IBM later this year plans to release management tools for its mainframe server, including a "federated" security application for logging onto several systems at once.
IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction.
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To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.
Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents.
Ahead of LinuxWorld next week, IBM and HP announce more big corporate customers for the relatively young operating system.
Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.
IBM's work on the AIX 5L Unix operating system will bear fruit this year, with version 5.1 enabling systems to incorporate Power 4 chips or Intel's Itanium for the first time.
Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
Microsoft is acquiring some assets of Connectix, including software that permits Windows to run on a Macintosh and an unreleased server program.
IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
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