The Mainframe Virtual Universe is Expanding

This Mainframe Virtual World is becoming a reality and it reinforces how modern the old dinosaur is becoming ! In this market the mainframe's strength is its ability to service millions of simultaneous users efficiently, which is what you need if we are all going to forget global warming and disappear into our "second life" and ditch the first!

In a hookup with the Brazilian software developer Hoplon Infotainment, IBM is conjuring up a "Cell Broadband Engine" for the mainframe to better position itself for serving up the huge online virtual worlds and online games that are proving so popular.

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William Hoffman