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Techworld: Big Blue Cheaper than Red Hat
Jan 3, 2007, 19 :00 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (9297 reads)

(Other stories by Chris Mellor)

"Fresh light on mainframe total cost of ownership reveals Big Blue's big iron is cheaper than a roomful of servers. Research house Illuminata's report, 'IBM System z TCO: Man Bites Dog' shows that running 10-50 applications on a mainframe costs less than running the same workload on a one server/one application basis where the servers run Linux or Solaris.

"The report, written by Illuminata analyst Wayne Kernochan, (based on data supplied by IBM) states 'it no longer makes sense for the large enterprise to measure TCO strictly on a one-application-per-server basis.' It compared multi-application workloads running on one mainframe versus a bunch of blade servers or a set of 50 distributed servers..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
"TCO strictly on a one-application-per-s ...   Wrong again as usual   
da
Jan 3, 2007, 19:20:51
 
The title makes no sense as the article  ...   What does RedHat has to do with hardware costs?   
Khalid
Jan 3, 2007, 19:36:32
 
The title was definitely misleading sinc ...   RTFA   
RLT
Jan 3, 2007, 21:09:40
 
This might be true for the initial setup ...   - Ongoing linux/servers will always be cheaper   
dl
Jan 3, 2007, 21:10:08
 
One app per server?  Are they kidding?   ...   Program Quantity   
Tony OBryan
Jan 3, 2007, 21:25:20
 
The rest of the points were interesting. ...   Re: RTFA   
Grishnakh
Jan 3, 2007, 23:04:11
 
> This might be true for the initial set ...   Re: - Ongoing linux/servers will always be cheape   
Sid Boyce
Jan 4, 2007, 01:48:30
 
they were still alive, they would still  ...   If IBM were around selling dinosaurs, when..   
Crooner_singer
Jan 4, 2007, 03:21:10
 
> "TCO strictly on a one-application-per ...   Re: Wrong again as usual   
Rainer Weikusat
Jan 4, 2007, 11:15:58
 
This point out something that has been t ...   Duh.............................   
Saxe
Jan 4, 2007, 13:59:06
 
> "TCO strictly on a one-application-per ...   Re: Wrong again as usual   
OrlandoNative
Jan 4, 2007, 14:30:43
 
If you start small it makes sense to sta ...   What's best depends on what you're doing a   
Charles Hixson
Jan 4, 2007, 20:49:07
 
Any report that purports to show that TC ...   *yawn*   
Matthew Berg
Jan 4, 2007, 21:09:07
 
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