[ Thanks to Paul
Eggert for this link. ]
“Soon after the California electricity shortage hit the front
pages, light bulbs went on in some minds at International Business
Machines Corp., the premier maker of big, powerful mainframe
computers.”
“Now, the world’s No. 1 computer maker is stressing another
point in its marketing: energy savings.“
“At the same time, hardware upgrades, the maturation of the
Linux operating system and new software pricing methods have let
mainframes work like an entire ‘farm’ in a single box. The
z900, which typically costs about $1.5 million, can be partitioned
into hundreds of virtual servers, each assigned discrete computing
tasks.”