Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-
I suppose they still have those "big iron" clients out there, pretty
Yes, they did where I worked. They actually moved to hosting the "big iron" in a cloud-like service. I forget what they called it, but the machines reside at one of their IBM facilities.
There were some interesting products from IBM - apparently an AS/400 can
run a ton of Linux VMs in their own protected memory space, while
running a DB2 database on bare metal - meaning you could build an entire
web infrastructure on one box. They did something like that for one of
the olympics.
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