Modern platforms?
El Reg wrote: "designed to allow IBM mainframe users to migrate their mission-critical applications to a modern platform"
IBM Big Iron has hundreds of cores running at over 5GHz playing in TiBs of memory (supporting more Linux instances than you can shake a stick at). And you call x86 kit a "modern platform"? This is about MONEY, namely running the stuff on cheap kit and not paying licence fees.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
