An interesting article indeed. For those who haven't read it, here are some statements that caught my eye: - HP announced today that in the past two years, it has helped more than 250 customers worldwide to migrate from mainframes to Integrity-based servers. - HP has been chasing IBM and other mainframes for 25 years, and ... has averaged around 100 per year for a while, but is accelerating - While IBM has specialty engines on mainframes that lower the cost of supporting Linux, Java, and DB2 workloads compared to regular mainframe engines, the lower price still leaves a big gap, even on the new z10 BC boxes. "Even when you move down to a Linux specialty engine, it is an order of magnitude more expensive than Linux on an Integrity machines" - HP contends that customers can save up to 70 per cent by getting off the mainframe So if HP alone is converting more than 250 mainframe shops every 2 years, then at least 1,000 mainframe shops will be gone over the next 8 years? Ouch! Someone please tell me this isn't true?
Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:16:42 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: "The Register" article on HP replacing z > To: [email protected] > > I don't know how accurate it is, but I found it interesting. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/hp_chases_mainframes/ > > -- > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
