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Not sure if you would count that as greenfield projects (I would not), but I am told they make very good database and ERP servers. Our local utility runs the DB
by krylon 9y ago
Not sure if you would count that as greenfield projects (I would not), but I am told they make very good database and ERP servers. Our local utility runs the DB2 backend for their SAP installation on a (small-ish) mainframe.
I remember hearing a while back (~10 years) that IBM and SAP were giving fairly generous discounts for customers to move their SAP installations to GNU/Linux running on zSeries mainframes.
None of that is very buzzwordy, but putting such mission-critical software on a mainframe can make sense at a certain scale.