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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

CA Plugs the Mainframe: 10 Reasons Why the Mainframe is Growing in Importance

http://ca.com/us/news/article.aspx?cid=144435

I would actually add that IBM is not the only mainframe server maker – in fact Sun recently launched a line it wants to have considered in the mainframe category (unfortunately it doesn’t run Linux…). Fujitsu, HP, and many others are all battling in this market and guess what, mainframe usage is actually growing… Linux is a great platform for these workloads – it’s easily portable from x86 to RISC to mainframe.

The mainframe has come a long way since the 1980s, when it was cloistered away in some data center enclave. It’s now a fully-connected resource within the distributed, web-enabled enterprise, where it carries an ever-growing burden of business-critical processing tasks. The IBM System z9 mainframe’s new hardware and operating system technologies, complemented by innovative, ISV management solutions, further boost its capabilities and performance to meet the continuously evolving demands of today’s IT-centric businesses.

Here are 10 reasons why the mainframe is growing in importance:

[click URL above to see the list]