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What do you get when you combine the scalability and reliability of IBM mainframe servers with the flexibility and open standards of Linux? Measurable business value.
IBM and Business Partners Realize Significant Growth on the Mainframe and Linux
IBM announced a mainframe milestone as more than 390 IBM business partners now offer nearly 1,000 applications for System z customers running Linux, a 100 percent increase over the last year. IBM recently reported a 30 percent year-to-year growth of mainframe customers running Linux and this surge is giving IBM's channel partners the opportunity to capitalize on the mainframe's continued growth.
IBM System z9 and Oracle plan to bring new Linux solutions to market
Oracle is extending the portfolio of products available on the IBM System z9 platform with a comprehensive set of both database and application solutions which Oracle intends to enable for Linux on System z. This could mean new opportunities for you to take advantage of the advanced functionality of Oracle applications on a premier Linux environment, benefiting from the core strengths of the IBM System z9 platform.
Extreme virtualization & Linux
Listen how Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company, embarked on a journey to aggressively exploit virtualization and Linux to address the growing software and data center costs, to simplify the environment, and to significantly improve the provisioning process.
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