>Maybe they will start using "price per MIPS" model? Then that'd be *even more* financially favorable to the most intensely virtualized, highest average utilization cores -- the chips with the "MIPS" which are most efficiently used, with the fewest idle MIPS per year. Which would be zEnterprise cores.
And we're already well down that path. What are core factors and PVUs, after all? To pick another example, per machine licensing also tends to be very financially favorable to architectures with the fewest required footprints, most particularly zEnterprise servers. To pick a third example, small workloads can financially do very well on zEnterprise, particularly if you have to run them in HA (clustered) and with DR protection, i.e. in a typical real world implementation for a reasonably decent service level. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
