[Gllug] Comparison

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 27 Oct 2001, Andrew Richardson wrote:
>Linux User magazine has an article this month about a company using Linux on 
>IBM mainframe.  Cost wise , I recall it estimating that benefits were to be 
>had if you run more that 20 or so machines.

That's got to be too low. 20 nice machines (but headless, with crappy
graphics cards) will set you back L20,000; but S/390s start at about
half a million, before you touch ongoing maintenance fees. I suspect
your L480,000 change will pay someone to look after 20 beige boxes.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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