On 11 Mar 2009 22:19:00 -0700, [email protected] (Timothy Sipples) wrote: >The point I was making is that you can "always" double the number of >transactions (and double the batch) on your mainframe. You would buy some >hardware (capacity increase) and some more software (peak 4 hour rolling >average license capacity) to do that. And not much else. The price of that >hardware and software won't be the same as what your base price was, it'll >be less. Much less. (There are strong price curves to both, especially >software.)
People selling server farms tell prospective customers that this is the big advantage they have over mainframes. Customers are often surprised when reality doesn't meet expectations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
