Berry van Sleeuwen wrote:
As for cost, yes, a mainframe will cost you more than a PC, but can you run as much workload on a PC? You would need more PC's to run the same workload and that would increase the cost to the same level or even above that. The problem is that you can't compare a single PC with a single mainframe and then say that the mainframe is more expensive. It is just like comparing a car with a truck. I wouldn't buy a car and then expect it to move 40tons of freight. So why then expect a PC to run the workload of a mainframe? Unfortunatly, most decision makers only know a PC and compare the price for a PC they buy at whatever discountstore with the price they must pay for a zseries machine. They ignore the fact that a mainframe can run much, much more workloads and is much more scalable than a PC.
It's been said fairly regularly on this list, that if your workload is I/O intensive, zSeries is a good choice. If it's CPU intensive, look at something else. Maybe intellish, maybe Power, maybe something else. Have a look at top500.org to see what folks who are doing serious number crunching use. Intellish and Linux get mentioned fairly often, zSeries and its predecessors never. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
