On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:24:56 -0600, Mark Post wrote: >>>> On 8/17/2009 at 3:53 PM, Ron wrote: >> The article describes exactly our problem. Everyone keeps saying: Why get an >> expensive linux engine on the mainframe, while for a fraction of the cost we >> can get intel..... > >... The math isn't hard, and no where near like what the Register >"reporter" would like you to believe. After his last article he wrote >about this topic, I tried to tell him that hardware costs are only >one (relatively small) piece of the total cost picture. He didn't >want to hear about it, perhaps because he would actually have >to stop and think a bit. > >To quote the author "The question mainframe shops have to ask >IBM is whether a five-processor System z BC can support >something akin to this number of VMs running Linux concurrently >- and then have Big Blue run benchmarks to prove it." Well, >Marist College has a z990 with 3 CPs running 700 Linux systems >for its students. I would say a 5-way z9 BC would be able to >do at least that well. :)
He also said, "Linux is not an operating system". -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
