>But then again, the best power management scheme I've seen for
>*really* big server farms is an S/390 mainframe running linux virtual
>machines. 1 S/390 costs $750K and can be the equivalent of
>roughly 40000 pentium servers. 1 mainframe uses considerably
>less power than 40K pentium servers-- especially when you take
>the cost of cooling into account.
Thanks for your opinion Dennis!
Speaking of big-wastes......has anyone caught Microsoft's TV ad for
their "webserver"? From the layout they present in the commercial,
it would appear you'd need 3 floor-to-ceiling racks of gear in a class
1 clean room to run a single MS webserver!
And I figured a '486 in the closet was overkill!
jk
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