>>> On 9/2/2012 at 12:47 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the great disparity between costs per > instruction execution, on reading these posts it would seem that > getting to a secure, fault tolerant operating system on blade clusters > would be highly cost effective and that all new work should be moved > to that environment.
If the hardware costs were the only thing you counted, that would be true. However, there are a myriad of cost factors and business factors that make mainframes the best choice for a significant number of workloads. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
