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IBM Introduces Two Open-Source-Only Mainframes

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 18 2015, @04:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the bringing-the-mainframe-into-the-21st-century dept.

IBM Introduces Two Open-Source-Only Mainframes

patella.whack and an Anonymous Coward both wrote in about IBMs new Linux only Mainframes.

IBM is introducing two mainframe servers that run only on the open-source Linux operating system.

The new hardware will make it easier to run technology like the MongoDB database and the open-source software Spark. Presently more than a third of IBM's mainframe clients are running the Linux operating system. IBM also said it will release mainframe code to the public and join a new cohort of less than a dozen academic, government and corporate entities in what's called the Open Mainframe Project, an open source endeavor devoted to helping companies using mainframe computers.

IBM is sweetening the pot by contributing 250,000 lines of mainframe code to the Linux community, hoping to attract a new generation of developers to their platform. To help coax new users, IBM will be offering free access to the LinuxOne cloud, a mainframe simulation tool it developed for creating, testing and piloting Linux mainframe applications.

Some of the specs for the machines can be found in this article from Reuters, including a partnership with Canonical Ltd. to distribute Ubuntu on the LinuxONE and zSeries systems.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by kaganar on Tuesday August 18 2015, @04:53PM

    by kaganar (605) on Tuesday August 18 2015, @04:53PM (#224479)
    Might want to tweak the title -- it's not clear (or likely) that both the drivers and hardware design are open source.
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  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:00PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:00PM (#224512)

    open hardware and open source are NOT the same.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:46PM (#224544)

      The Stallman/GNU explanation. [gnu.org]

  • (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:22PM

    by jimshatt (978) on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:22PM (#224558) Journal
    Why is everyone being modded down so much? Maybe we just all have too many modpoints. The guy made an honest mistake. C'mon people! (Please mod me off-topic, because it is, but my point stands)