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Executive Summary

When IBM announced its Solution Edition of packaged software solutions for the System z mainframe in July 2009, it had to meet two key customer objectives. On the one hand, the Solution Editions offering needed to create a significant life-cycle cost savings over buying the hardware, software, and services à la carte, but at the same time had to still maintain the mission-critical benefits inherent in System z's reliability, availability, and serviceability feature/functionality infrastructure sweet spots. While the first set of Solution Edition offerings did just that, it was biased toward the z/OS-led customer base. IBM's new Solution Edition for Enterprise Linux, however, now addresses firms interested in running Linux workloads on z. This broadens IBM's Trojan horse strategy in offering a strong Linux applications consolidation target, while at the same time enticing third-party Linux vendors who have typically generated software license and maintenance revenue from an all x86-led high volume server footprint alternative.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1. How does the Linux Solution Edition leverage the earlier packaging objectives?
• 2. Why is z/VM a core ingredient as a foundation for this Solution Edition offering?
• 3. How compelling is the cost reduction outcome versus distributed Linux footprints?
• 4. Are there any early customers weighing in on initial cost-saving benefits?
• 5. What other Solution Edition Series offerings should you expect throughout 2010?

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