[lug] CSU hub for IBM mainframe running thousands of Linux VMs

[D. Stimits]

"J. Wayde Allen" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:11:43PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > > IBM will provide Colorado State's College of Business students and
> > > faculty with the use of a powerful mainframe. The unique capabilities
> >
> > Yeah, but the *BUSINESS SCHOOL*?!?  I didn't realize that business students
> > were great adopters of Linux technology...  "What do you mean we've all got
> > a dedicated computer but we can't run Office 2000 on them?"  Is this a ploy
> > to get the CS geeks to take more accounting classes?  ;-)
> 
> This is one of those marketing strategies for Linux that I think just
> might work.  It provides a demo project of how Linux can function in the
> business community.  This is after all, the biggest slice of the compter
> market.  Linux has a reputation of being only useful for the research lab,
> programmer, or CS geek.  This just might help prove this stereotype wrong.

I happen to have a finance degree, and although most parts of business
school don't really "need" UNIX style functionality, finance in graduate
school does. I happen to have learned C while taking graduate finance
classes, because I was using Mathematica (which runs on Linux if you can
afford the absurd price) on AIX and wanted to embed it elsewhere (my
first encounter with Mathematica and UNIX was a guy who wrote a ski
slope simulation on Mathematica under AIX...it had wonderful mountain
slows, snow, skiers, so on). So although I doubt undergrad would use it
much, I would expect graduate schools of operations management and
finance to be big users. (the mathematics of money tends to get a lot of
attention)

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> > Hopefully, the public education system is better a solid decade later...
> 
> Nope, Apple hardware is still solidly entrenched there as far as I can
> tell.
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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