Jim wrote: >I took very conservative costs for the Intel machines ($2K per server)...
I assume you also factored in the staffing cost differences, which can be huge. Unfortunately, those in power usually "manage by perception, or magazine". There was an early case where SIAC replaced many Sun servers with Linux on zSeries, but it got barely a raised eye brow. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/zseries_stock.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
