He kind of misses the whole concept of virtualization in the 2nd article. Mainframes are not about running 1 of something vs. 1 of something out there on an intel box. It's about running hundreds or even a thousand of them vs. a server farm. The mainframe is good at running lots and most distributed servers are way under utilized.
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