Microsoft is expanding a plan to draw mainframe customers to Windows for high-end applications.
Under a program with the internal code name Mission Critical Microsoft, the company is trying to extend its current data center support and sales efforts to a wider range of customers, according to company representative. Microsoft discussed the plan this week at an IBM mainframe user conference in New York.
Mission Critical Microsoft is meant to build off Microsoft's current Datacenter High Availability Program, the support and service offering the company provides to customers with high-end computing needs. The program is designed for Microsoft's Windows server 2003 Datacenter Edition, billed as a competitor to mainframe systems that have very little downtime.
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