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IBM Saves $250 Million Consolidating Linux Servers On To Mainframes
Aug 1, 2007, 13 :00 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (6023 reads)

"Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process.

"The 4,000 servers that IBM will replace by making this change will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services..."

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Yeah, IBM is consolidating, alright....  ...   towards 2015   
James E LaBarre
Aug 1, 2007, 18:04:01
 
Save $250M moving to expensive mainframe ...   Something smells fishy!   
Reformer
Aug 3, 2007, 16:50:56
 
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