I guess that's one way to look at it. I remember a story from earlier this year that announce the Swedish(?) company Telia replacing a large number (more than 50 but less than 100) Sun servers with a brand spanking new zSeries running Linux. They were going to provide web services for all 800,000 of their subscribers. (I think that's the number.) One quote that I heard about pricing these things was if the average cost of a rackmounted system, all pieces, was $1000 and a zSeries (S/390) could be had for $1,000,000. Then all you needed to do was run 1001 instances on your zSeries to be ahead of the game. I realize this is a simplistic arguement but it does get to the heart of the matter. Bob's other response to this e-mail with some rough numbers on the non-mainframe costs shows some of the other things that come into play. Jack On Thursday 05 April 2001 08:14, you wrote: > I've never understood why people are so damned fascinated with > Linux on the S/390. I get to work on SuSE/390, and it really isn't that > impressive. The box isn't any more responsive than the Linux PC on > my desk. Sure, you can put lots of them on one box - but if you're wanting > to actually save money, you're better off buying small boxes. Or, buying > a higher end Sun box and just intelligently administrating it. > > Grump. > > - Nick Reinking > > > > > > > dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu, on 04/05/2001 07:44:36 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF > cc: > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] DSL woes > > > > Who's going to admin an S390, though? Does Real Time have any > > > mainframe admins? > > > > Mainframe, Linux, NT is there a difference? :-) > > > > Carl can jump in here, but from the presentation on the S390 it seems > > like > > there > > > is going to be a web(?) interface to the 390 so you just point-n-click. > > Won't someone need to be experienced in OS/390 to partition the mainframe? > If there is a web interface, that's very cool, however. > > Gabe