NewsForge Secretaries use Linux, taxpayers save millions

[JD Runyan]

I work in a mostly mainframe shop, and they are in the planning stages
of lauching Linux to provide customer services.

On Thu, Aug ,  at 10:08:48AM -0500, Jeffrey A. McCright wrote:
> Anybody seen a mainframer around here???   =)
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> From:	Jim Herrmann [mailto:b3d at kc.rr.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 14, 2001 7:40 PM
> To:	kclug at kclug.org
> Subject:	Re: NewsForge  Secretaries use Linux, taxpayers save millions
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> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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> > installation as it would to configure a Linux installation.  More and more
> > offices are returning to the model of a centralised computing resource
> > instead of having to support distributed individual PC's, and *NIX,
> > including Linux, fits that model much better than MS' products.
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> Enter Linux on z/OS and OS/390!
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> Just had to put in that comment.  ;-)
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> Jim Herrmann
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