[lug] FW: go mainframe!!!

Atkinson, Chip CAtkinson at Circadence.com
Fri Dec 8 08:50:18 MST 2000


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike.Reed at trilogy.com [mailto:Mike.Reed at trilogy.com]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:36 AM
To: catkinson at circadence.com; jseamour at bazillion.com;
mparker at computer.org
Subject: go mainframe!!!


score one (or maybe two) for the good guys...
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Joe Liemandt
12/07/2000 05:03 PM

 
        To:     techlist at Trilogy
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        Subject:        go mainframe!!!


IBM pulls off Linux coup with Telia

By Peter Galli, eWEEK 
December 6, 2000 9:13 PM ET
IBM scored a Linux coup Wednesday as Telia, Scandinavia's largest 
telecommunications and Internet service provider, announced it was 
replacing its 70 Sun Microsystems Inc. Web hosting servers with a single 
IBM mainframe S/390 G6 enterprise server. 
Telia, based in Copenhagen, is also replacing its current EMC Corp. 
storage servers with one 11.2 Terabyte IBM Shark storage server. 
Steve Solazzo, IBM's vice president of Linux strategy, said in an 
interview that the implementation represents Europe's first major 
commercial enterprise infrastructure based on Linux. The Linux software 
will be provided by SuSE Inc. of Germany. 
The S/390 is able to host up to 30,000 virtual Linux servers at the same 
time, using IBM's VM (Virtual Machine) operating system. 
"Telia will initially host more than 1,500 customers through individual 
Linux images, with near-instantaneous scalability up to 30,000 images," 
Solazzo said. 
Sun eclipsed 
Bill Claybrook, an analyst at Boston-based Aberdeen Group Inc., said the 
deal was significant as it further legitimized Linux's ability to handle 
the serious applications required by large enterprise customers. 
"The deal is also very significant for IBM as it now gives them a new 
market in which to sell their S/390 mainframes, which almost never go 
down. And, with the VM operating system, users can scale up to a large 
number of servers and add extra Web hosting capacity relatively quickly," 
he said. 
It was also a blow for Sun, which was dominant in this market, Claybrook 
said. 
Henrik Riedl, chief financial officer at TeliaNet, said in a prepared 
statement that it would now take less than 5 minutes to install a new 
server, whereas previously this took 5 hours. 
IBM's Solazzo said IBM had worked with Telia at Big Blue's Linux 
Integration Center in Boeblingen, Germany, and would be shipping the S/390 
later this month. 
He declined to put a specific value on the multimillion-dollar deal. 











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