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Re: [Linux] IBM: Linux on the Mainframe is Gaining Steam

Mark Kent wrote:

Microsoft's PC-centric, vertically integrated,
stand-alone, single-user, local-access-only applications increasingly
look like a left-over from the 1990s.

Yes and no.

Things like peer-to-peer and clustering, which take those stand-alone machines and combine them into massive networked machines are an alternative to the central server.

For example, they keep saying how linux has the fastest supercomputer -- but are they counting those systems that use screensavers to calculate molecules and all the rest?



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