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Red Hat Linux on IBM Mainframes!
Techtree News Staff, May 09, 2007 1535 hrs ISTRed Hat and IBM have reached an agreement to develop, sell, and support Red Hat Linux software for IBM mainframe computers...
Red Hat and IBM have reached an agreement to develop, sell, and support Red Hat Linux software for IBM mainframe computers, which the companies plan to disclose at the Red Hat users conference beginning today, says a Reuters report.
The agreement is applicable to Linux software for IBM's System z mainframe computer systems, sources familiar with the deal have said.
With a majority of the Linux software currently running on IBM System z coming from Novell, this is indeed a major achievement for Red Hat, which till now has been marketing its software only for IBM's smaller systems.
When it comes to selling software for IBM's mainframe computers, the unspoken understanding's always been that Novell would be the preferred choice.
As one Global Equities Research Analyst, Trip Chowdhry, put it, Novell has been the de facto choice on IBM's System z mainframes.
Hence, Chowdhry said, the latest agreement is a potentially huge credibility gain for Red Hat, which shows Red Hat is enterprise class.
Both IBM and Red Hat have declined comment on the matter.
All said, IBM and Novell have been working for long towards developing, selling, and servicing Novell's Suse Linux for use on IBM's System z computers.
The latest IBM-Red Hat deal too creates a similar cooperation, with both companies planning to form a joint engineering team to expand Linux capabilities, including enhancing security on mainframe computers.
The agreement is applicable to Linux software for IBM's System z mainframe computer systems, sources familiar with the deal have said.
With a majority of the Linux software currently running on IBM System z coming from Novell, this is indeed a major achievement for Red Hat, which till now has been marketing its software only for IBM's smaller systems.
When it comes to selling software for IBM's mainframe computers, the unspoken understanding's always been that Novell would be the preferred choice.
As one Global Equities Research Analyst, Trip Chowdhry, put it, Novell has been the de facto choice on IBM's System z mainframes.
Hence, Chowdhry said, the latest agreement is a potentially huge credibility gain for Red Hat, which shows Red Hat is enterprise class.
Both IBM and Red Hat have declined comment on the matter.
All said, IBM and Novell have been working for long towards developing, selling, and servicing Novell's Suse Linux for use on IBM's System z computers.
The latest IBM-Red Hat deal too creates a similar cooperation, with both companies planning to form a joint engineering team to expand Linux capabilities, including enhancing security on mainframe computers.
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