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Third World Meets the Mainframe
IBM has sold its very first mainframes in Namibia to the First National Bank of Namibia, two z10s Business Class machines
Nov. 27, 2009 02:00 PM
IBM News on Ulitzer
IBM has sold its very first mainframes in Namibia to the First National Bank of Namibia, two z10s Business Class machines. The bank was under government instructions to get its systems out of neighboring South Africa. Big Blue says the mainframe's next frontier is emerging markets. It sold its first System z in India in April to the Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited Bank and it's been pushing the beasts into China, Russia and Korea.
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