In early February 2002 Collateral Damage starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was the top movie in the United States, the XIX Winter Olympic Games opened in Salt Lake City, and the .NET development platform was launched.

This month, 20 years later, IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE are joining the .NET community in fondly looking back at the ecosystem that's developed around .NET in that time. IBM Z had a long history of having various components in the .NET ecosystem working on IBM Z, which you can read more about in an Enterprise Tech Journal article by Neale Ferguson of Sine Nomine Associates: .NET comes to IBM Z.

As we look toward the future, we were thrilled to share on November 8, 2021 that IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE support was included in .NET 6.

As an open source project, all changes are included in the .NET project on GitHub, and supported RPM packages and container images built from those sources for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE are provided by Red Hat for Red Hat Linux Enterprise 8.

A variety of applications across industries run on .NET at cloud scale with great performance, and now with IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE, clients  can even get extraordinary advantages to reduce difficulty to modernize their applications, run mission-critical apps with security and reliability, and increase efficiency and flexibility.

If you wish to learn more, you can view a talk from IBM Distinguished Engineer Ulrich Weigand presented at the .NET conference, "Running .NET Workloads on IBM Z" which is now on YouTube.

IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE are happy to join the .NET family, we invite you to join us in the .NET community at IBM Community where you can learn about upcoming events, get the latest news about .NET on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE, and have discussions with fellow .NET users.