Linux continues to give the mainframe the new blood it needs to stay alive in the 21st century. SEATTLE --IBM and The Linux Foundation,
the nonprofit organization dedicated to speeding up the growth of Linux
and collaborative software, announced the Open Mainframe Project (OMP)
at LinuxCon. IBM is betting big on enterprise Linux by unveiling what it calls most secure Linux servers in the industry. The mainframe is alive and well with Linux running through its circuits.The founding Platinum members of OMP include ADP, CA Technologies, IBM and SUSE. This
news comes as no surprise. IBM has powered its zSeries mainframe with
Linux since the year 2000. Indeed, Linux is what has enabled the
mainframe to continue to be a living force in computing long after its
critics had written its obituary.
That's because together big
iron and Linux excel at delivering the services enterprises need today.
These include: Big Data, mobile processing, cloud computing and
virtualization. To make sure Linux and the mainframe continue to thrive,
vendors, users and academia needed a neutral forum to work together to
advance Linux tools and technologies and increase enterprise innovation.
That forum is the OMP.
The OMP members will focus on leveraging
new Linux software and tools that can take advantage of the mainframe's
speed, security, scalability and availability. The Project will seek to
significantly broaden the set of tools and resources that are intended
to drive development and collaboration of mainframe Linux. The OCP will
also aim to coordinate mainframe improvements to upstream projects to
increase the quality of these code submissions and ease upstream
collaboration.
Specifically, IBM will enable programs such as Apache Spark, Node.js,
MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Chef on z Systems to provide clients
with open-source choice and flexibility for hybrid cloud deployments.
IBM will also be contributing a great deal of formerly proprietary
mainframe code to the open-source community.
In addition, SUSE, which is the top mainframe Linux distributor, will now support the KVM hypervisor.
Michael Miller, SUSE vice president of global alliances and marketing,
said "SUSE has been the No. 1 Linux on the mainframe for 15 years by
working together with this ecosystem. The Open Mainframe Project
provides an ideal environment to expand that collaboration in a way that
increases choice and brings benefits to customers and developers
alike."
"Fifteen years ago IBM surprised the industry by putting
Linux on the mainframe, and today more than a third of IBM mainframe
clients are running Linux," said Tom Rosamilia, IBM's senior of IBM
Systems in a statement. "We are deepening our commitment to the
open-source community by combining the best of the open world with the
most advanced system in the world in order to help clients embrace new
mobile and hybrid cloud workloads. Building on the success of Linux on
the mainframe, we continue to push the limits beyond the capabilities of
commodity servers that are not designed for security and performance at
extreme scale."
Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation's executive director,
added, "Linux today is the fastest growing operating system in the
world. As mobile and cloud computing become globally pervasive, new
levels of speed and efficiency are required in the enterprise and Linux
on the mainframe is poised to deliver. The Open Mainframe Project will
bring the best technology leaders together to work on Linux and advanced
technologies from across the IT industry and academia to advance the
most complex enterprise operations of our time." Related Stories:
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