On Saturday 08 September 2001 05:34, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:32:01 -0400 burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 September 2001 09:22, Lee wrote:
> > > Out here in the piney woods of Florida news and tv signals travel
> > > slowly. Saw my first Linux ad on tv last night. It was for IBM Linux
> > > servers. Claimed you could replace a whole warehouse full of servers
> > > running that other system with one IBM server using reliable Linux
> > > technology. Looks like Big Blue is serious about Linux and doesn't fear
> > > the gang from Redmon WA.
> >
> > That's the standard IBM market strategy for the S390 running Linux
>
> I wonder what the price difference would be between on s390 and a warehouse
> full
> of pc's and windows... :')
IBM has a case study they did fo a poposal for a large southern (US)
corporation. IIRC, It was going to cost them $20.5M to establish the
eCommerce server farm, consisting of a vast array of beige boxes, plus all
the assorted management infrastucture. In the end the would be lucky to get
3x9's. IBM provided an alternative proposal as follows:
- 1 x S390
- client facing nodes running as a Linux Apache web server cluster
- middleware and CRM running on AIX
- high end back services running DB2, etc. on OS390 natively
This gave them 5x9's, plus increased survivability, better centralized
management, much faster data transfer across the nodes and only cost about
$3M... a saving of $17M, or 85 percent of the alternative cost.
Pretty impressive. Of course, with an S390 you are also pretty much selling
your soul to IBM forever for support - and IBM's mainfarme support contracts
and stipulations are absolutely air tight, believe me.
--
burns
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