Charles Mills wrote: >Thanks. That's a start. It's not the claims I had in mind but it's a help.
It is indeed a good one. There are a few things which I see regularly + repeatedly over the years on the web pages and IBM-MAIN and of course also on IBM own pages: 1. Lower costs (not startup and beginning of datacentre) for running, maintaining and upgrading these z systems. 2. Lower staff costs. For z machines you need fewer persons to run this thing where for other platforms you need an admin for every few machines, probably around 5 to 10 machines depending on configuration and workload. [1] 3. Lower electrical costs - especially when you try to prop in gazillion zLinux virtual machines in one box [2] with z/VM. You can't do that on a 'server farm'. and you can have one or two zLinux admins for the whole lot. Just search on the internet ... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - This I observed personally at my work and other places. YMMV. [2] - Just don't run out of disk space and memory... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
