I wonder who in IBM made this statement! IBM has no plans to begin running Linux performance benchmarks for the mainframe, the IBM spokesman said. "We typically don't run industry standard performance benchmarks for any software on the mainframe," he said. "The value of the mainframe is based on its ability to securely run multiple applications on a single platform as opposed to purely seeking outstanding performance of one application on a single platform."
He obviuosly does not understand the power of the mainframe. IBM has always talked about throughput rather than "performance" - elapsed time of any given transaction and throughput. The real questions are: Could the zSeries give a the same or higher transaction rate? Hang a terabyte on the a zSeries 116 or 216, give it 64 GB memory, and see how much work you can put through it. (The zSeries 116 or 216 is in the range of the same clock rate). How many Microsoft/Intel's would it take to do the same work! And what would the cost/transaction be? ===== Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
