Red Hat, IBM Form Mainframe Partnership

[HardOCP News]

MSN Money, citing people “familiar with the arrangement,” says that Red Hat and IBM have formed a partnership to develop, sell and support Red Hat’s software on IBM’s mainframe computers.

The agreement, which the companies plan to announce at a Red Hat users conference that begins on Wednesday, applies to Linux software for International Business Machine Corp.'s System z mainframe computer systems, the sources said.