It is critical to align business requirements and IT capability but this assumes that business drives IT and not other way around, writes Marcel den Hartog in Enterprise Tech Journal. With the combination of Linux on System z, IBM paired the flexibility of Linux and the reliability of the mainframe, which den Hartog notes is a “match made in heaven,” particularly for IT managers “who understand that only an IT strategy without technical bias and driven by the business is sensible.”
Access the article titled, “Linux on the Mainframe From a Business Perspective” here.