It is free and open to all those interested in development and use of Linux for the iSeries PowerPC family of midrange computers. This utility is intended to facilitate and offer an additional dimension for users and developers to communicate about the Linux on iSeries experiences, and suggestions. IBM's decision to embrace Linux was based on a number of key factors including customer input, our own technical validation, the excitement we felt from our own development community, and the opportunity to establish standards that would make e-business really take off. IBM is a leader for open source Linux development, application development, services, and middleware support. And now, iSeries is extending the solution base with Linux.
Consolidations enable fewer and smaller computer rooms.
Power - The latest systems require far less electricity, air conditioning or UPS backup systems than before. Performance - A single large system does deliver better performance, at a lower cost per user, than multiple small systems even where both options use the same technology. DASD savings - An enterprise is forced to store many system objects, multiple times, in a distributed environment. As an example, multiple small systems consume more disk space by storing the Operating System and its associated objects on every system. Examples include a file server, e-mail server, and a simple web server.