IBM: The mainframe is back

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From what I have seen, it's a case of similar technology goals of the recent commodity systems to the mainframe. Virtualization, multiple guest OS's, consolidation, cloud computing, grid computing, better use of company resources, etc. All of this points to a central system, which is what the mainframe offers. The added features of a mainframe type system are also there (like up-time, hot swapping/adding, etc). It does make sense in some environments. It will only be a matter of time before commodity hardware does this (it does a lot of it now).

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