After reading the NewsWire Extra about Oracle and Linux, this popped into my
mailbox:

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2843975,00.html

When AAA Missouri brought out an e-commerce application on its Web site, it
knew it had to be prepared to serve a heavy volume of traffic.

The site currently runs on three IBM Netfinity 4500 servers--800MHz Pentium
III dual processors with 2GB of RAM--running Windows NT. The motor club
selected the IBM servers because of favorable past experience with earlier
IBM servers. Netfinity is the top-of-the-line server used at AAA Missouri,
according to Steven Couch, manager of insurance systems at AAA Missouri.

That might change in the not-too-distant future. "We're looking at the
possibility of running the WebSphere application server on the IBM DOS/VSE
390 mainframe running Linux," says Couch. "We believe we'd get more
scalability, more application stability" on the mainframe, he says. He also
noted that for disaster-recovery considerations, it's safer to have all
applications on the mainframe rather than have to recover separate boxes.

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