11.6. A quick look at the future
At the time of writing this book, there is already a fair amount of capabilities for building some highly available application solutions using Linux on the mainframe. This chapter has laid out some of the key areas where implementation is both feasible and cost-effective. In the dynamic world of Linux on the mainframe, there is still much going on.
The Open Source community has two major projects dedicated to high availability. This chapter has already discussed the LVS approach from the Linux Virtual Server project. The other key project is the High-Availability Linux project that is building key infrastructure for peer cluster environments. IBM, through its Linux Technology Center, is a very active participant ...
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