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IBM Japan today announced the implementation of NYK Line's new accounting system as part of the company's medium-term management plan "New Horizon 2007" announced in March 2005. [...] The strongest feature of IBM's mainframe z990 is its ability to run its flagship z/OS operating system concurrently with open and industry standard technologies such as Linux and Java™ Linux on a single server. Another distinguishing feature is the z990 offers an Integrated Facility for Linux, a central processor dedicated to Linux workloads, which allows users to temporarily turn on additional IFL engine capacity for spikes in usage, thereby enabling better cost management and utilization of IT resources.

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