This was posted on the VM newsgroup and l thought I would pass it along http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/opinion/Evolving-IT-needs-and-capabil ities-restart-mainframe-vs-server-debate?asrc=EM_NLT_22746667&utm_medium=EM& utm_source=NLT&utm_campaign=20130729_Intel%20shifts%20focus%20to%20micro%20s ervers_ewatkins&track=NL-1811&ad=887900
or Tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/moxp5k8 One comment from the article: "A mainframe is like one very large server that can do anything that multiple servers in a rack are able to do. It's a virtualization platform; its hardware is highly redundant, so it replaces a cluster of servers. And, compared to all the x64 servers, it's not even that expensive," said the data center architect. Happy days Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
