Re:Why bother? (Score 1)

There are plenty of applications for Linux in the Business Sector and in education. I work for a community college and we have been using an IBM X-server for our mainframe. It is basically just a Dual PIII X-Server whith some mainframe emulation software called FLEX-ES. We use a version of SUSE Linux with the emulation software and then install the IBM Mainframe software. It works just as fast as our old mainframe. The server is custom built by an outfit down in Florida. It takes some special I/O cards to get everything to match up and we also started using a SCSI attached tape backup unit that takes the IBM Mainfram backup tapes. We will probably also use Linux and J2EE for our new Database system when we get it up and running. We will use IBM servers for that also. We have all the boxes in and will start putting it together on 11-15-2004. It is like getting Candy when an IT Guy gets new stuff like this.