IBM sells 1,000th mainframe model; promotes ‘virtual’ servers

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Author: JT Smith

Reported at Bloomberg: “International Business Machines Corp. has sold its
1,000th zSeries mainframe computer in what one analyst calls “a year of resurgence” for the
refrigerator-size machines known for their reliability.

Some companies are cutting costs by eliminating “farms” of smaller server computers that run Web
sites and network printers. Instead, they are installing one mainframe and partitioning it into scores
or even hundreds of “virtual” servers running the free Linux operating system.”

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