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The whole world of Web 2.0 fits on our mainframe - Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software Group

Linux on System z offers an attractive foundation for a dynamic infrastructure. It can deliver dynamic and seamless access to IT services, and can integrate and manage the growing volume of intelligent business assets.

Web 2.0 on System z

Web 2.0 is one of the emerging new technologies that hold the promise to drive business innovation, efficiency and responsiveness. These new technologies, unlike the existing technologies, require a dynamic infrastructure that must be cost effective, highly virtualized and scalable, secure and resilient.

Linux on System z can deliver an infrastructure that is efficient, green and optimized, and its Web 2.0 capabilities demonstrate the flexibility and openness of the System z environment.

Using Linux on System z for Web 2.0
SOA and Web2.0 (PDF, 114KB)
Combining SOA, Web services and Web 2.0 on System z can help organizations deliver an increased productivity for their people, based on leading virtualization, security and reliability.

Using Linux on System z for Web 2.0

Many popular Web 2.0 applications for the types of Wikis, Blogs or Content Management Systems run on Linux, using open source components like Apache, PHP, Perl, Ruby and Dojo (Ajax). Web 2.0 applications require also databases to store the information for a stable and structured environment.

Technical papers are available, describing how to install and set up the Web 2.0 open source components on

  Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (PDF, 537KB)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 (PDF, 535KB)

How to install the open source application packages on

  Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (PDF, 125KB)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 (PDF, 124KB)

And how to setup Web 2.0 related programming languages to connect to IBM’s DB2 9.5 LUW on

  Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (PDF, 509KB)
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 (PDF, 667KB)

Leverage the advantages of the Linux on System z environment by using Web 2.0 applications, supporting more functionality and providing more flexibility to exceed expectations.

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