Revenge of the dinosaurs.

Reports on a return of interest in central processing mainframes. Topic of firms using spare capacity on their mainframes to run virtual Linux servers; Reasons that companies are experimenting with Linux-on-mainframe; Outlook for distributed computing and for mainframes.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Economist Vol. 360; no. 8231; pp. 52 - 54
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited 7/21/2001
Subjects:	Computer systems Computer operating systems Internet servers Computer industry Forecasting
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

Description
Summary:	Reports on a return of interest in central processing mainframes. Topic of firms using spare capacity on their mainframes to run virtual Linux servers; Reasons that companies are experimenting with Linux-on-mainframe; Outlook for distributed computing and for mainframes.