> 2) BIggest savings is middleware - more virtual servers per unit (harware) > equals less in license costs
IFF your software ia available on the system in question and your vendor charges the same for support on all platforms and you need support/run lots of licence encumbered software. At the end of the day you can produce a comparison to make the sun shine out of any particular backside. A high storage capacity. low I/O, CPU heavy workload will make the PC shine while there are other workloads that the PC handles not by elegance or design but by the "lots of cheap hammers" approach - there you can probably make zSystem shine. It misses the point though - people going to those advertorials are 99.99% likely to be asking "What virtualisation solution do I wish to deploy on my PC infrastructure" and that is what it provides some comparison for. If they wanted to know about mainframe they'd have phoned the man from IBM. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
