Howard Brazee said > Craddock, Chris wrote: > >On a slightly off-topic note, there is a large body of evidence that > >MOST of the IT budget (75-85%!!) is consumed in just keeping the lights > >on. <<>>
> That leaves an opening for an effective way of IBM directing their R&D > money. And of their marketing. Energy efficiency can be done by > re-using computer room heat, or by not having as much computer room > heat. Getting these results from a server farm can be much harder to > accomplish. When I said "keeping the lights on", I meant all of the day-to-day operational costs associated with keeping the existing IT environment up and running. Energy is just one of those costs, albeit a rapidly increasing one. The idea of exchanging server heat for building heat is interesting though. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
