On 11 Jul 2005 08:48:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >And another 100 to replace them for newer ones as new technology comes out. >Wow, they must be in the money, customers money that is.........
Guess what? While we may not like it, Sun, HP etc. are reliable enough for most things. There are people in the Unix/Linux world who brag about the number of months between reboots. My general feeling about the Unix shop I was in is that they were running it as reliably as they had run their mainframe. In terms of raw compute power, excluding I-O what is the ratio between 1 high end Sun engine, 1 PowerPC chip, 1 high end Intel chip (3.4 ghz or something like these days and 1 Z990 engine? Are the other engines cheap enough that a sop can afford to run them at 30 percent and still be ahead money? > > >-----Original Message----- >From: William Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:14 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust > >And have another 50 in reserve to replace they ones going down every 5 >minutes. <g> > >Bill > >Mainframe - > >An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies, serving >billions of obsolete customers, and making huge obsolete profits, for >their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice fast as last >year's. -Phil Payne- > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
