With DB2 mainframe, clustering support, IBM has linux marketing covered

Enterprise Linux Today has posted this original report by John Wolley: “Porting DB2 to Linux and porting Linux to its mainframe took care of much of the technical end of IBM’s Linux strategy.
The latest DB2 Linux/mainframe announcements, combined with the Small Business Suite thrust, create a coherent
marketing strategy designed to get businesses to start using Linux — on the low end, the high end, and in the middle.”