Quick post today. The Register, while it sometimes overdoes it in half funny coverage of nonsensical news, has an interesting comment running this week.

It is a celebration of ten years of Linux on IBM Mainframes. While it may sound logical now that it is Linux that has saved Big Iron from catastrophe, it is actually kind of weird that two so different tech business philosophies are so well matched together. You can't really get more inflexible than the mainframe, and Linux is about as modifiable as a piece of used wet chewing gum.

So what brings them together actually? The article tries to explain. Myself, I would like to add another element that brings the two to one another: No mingling from Microsoft.