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Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @12:24PM from the your-airplane-fell-into-my-peanut-butter dept.

msmoriarty writes "Following up on its May announcement, IBM has now confirmed that by December 16 it will support Microsoft Windows on zEnterprise via its zBX component."

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Is this something the market forces are demanding? (Score:3, Insightful)

by spacepimp ( 664856 ) writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @12:27PM (#37986212)

What in the Mainframe market sector is this the answer to?

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Re:Run! Run! Run for your lives! (Score:3, Insightful)

by wedontneednobadges ( 856106 ) writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @01:03PM (#37986846) Homepage

Are you kidding? This is the greatest job security coup of all time! World wide IT departments will have to start hiring around the clock. Think of all that buggy, crashing, virus invected software that will constantly require fixing. This will make all that Y2k hype seem like a walk in the park LOL!!!

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Re:Year of Windows on the Mainframe (Score:2, Insightful)

by Jeremiah Cornelius ( 137 ) writes: on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:16PM (#37990622) Homepage Journal

WOO HOO! Dinosaurs, frosted in shit!
Somehow, I think that this is an admission by Microsoft, of failure to get HyperV into the datacenter, vs. vSphere.

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