On: Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

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> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

It was all about Solaris, AIX and HP-UX for .com businesses.

I was there, our Linux deployements were only used internally, we never sold those workloads as UNIX targets on our product.