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IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push (News.com)

IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push (News.com)

Posted Feb 26, 2005 2:11 UTC (Sat) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346)
In reply to: IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push (News.com) by nix
Parent article: IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push (News.com)

If you like losing half of everything you've got after one hardware failure...


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IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push (News.com)

Posted Mar 6, 2005 15:52 UTC (Sun) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659) [Link]

Actually, it takes multiple simultaneous hardware failures to bring down a mainframe. They are extremely reliable machines with *average* uptimes in years. Yes, a handful of Linux or BSD servers can make it that long, but the average is more like months.

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