Air New Zealand moves from Windows NT servers to IBM mainframes running Linux. As more Linux geeks climb the corporate ladder, could the trend be about to take off? Air New Zealand is replacing 150 Compaq NT servers with two IBM mainframes running Linux, saving the company a potential NZ$600,000 (£180,000) in licence fees alone, according to a report in The New Zealand Herald. The company will then be in a position to replace 4000 Microsoft Exchange clients with Bynari, an open-source email application. The IBM Z800 mainframes will run Linux, Websphere Application Server, DB2 database and Tivoli software.
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