The article is correct. It says the Neon software "allows computing tasks that usually run on a mainframe's regular processors to be shifted to the discounted ones meant to run things like Linux." It does not say that they are running on Linux, just that the discounted processors are meant to run Linux (and JAVA, etc.)
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258-8487 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike Shorkend > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: The Economist: "The Return of the Mainframe, Back in > Fashion" > > One small error in the article: Neon/zPrime ships regular MIPS to > ZxxP, not to Linux. > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This story hit the newsstands (and online) this week: > > > > > http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=152 > 76 > 714 > > > > - - - - - > > Timothy Sipples > > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving > > IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN > > INFO Search the archives at > > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > > > -- > Mike Shorkend > [email protected] > www.shorkend.com > Tel: +972524208743 > Fax: +97239772196 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
