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title: "RedMonk Radio: MMORPG game on the mainframe, an on demand case study"
date: 2006-10-09T19:22:03Z
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[People Over Process: RedMonk Radio Episode 27 – Games and Mainframes, Hoplon](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/10/redmonk_radio_e_23.html "RedMonk Radio Episode 27 - Games and Mainframes, Hoplon")

Very interesting story – we caught up with CEO Tarquinio Teles of Hoplon, to hear more about how his company decided to choose a mainframe as the target platform for his new game-which has explosions!-rather than spend a bunch of money on servers before the market is built. That is right – choose System z, with _no unfront costs_.