Server Consolidation - 255 Wintel's to 5 iSeries

This is the good news and the bad news.

>Jacobs estimates the E-mail consolidation project will save ABN Amro 20%
on its hardware costs. He also expects >other savings. "I don't have 450
copies of Notes, 250 copies of NT, or 200 virus patches, or the staff
needed to do >it all," he says. And because only one server is needed as a
backup for up to three other servers, "we don't have >to buy as much server
capacity."

I don't think Lotus is happy about losing Notes Clients.

BTW,    Don't forget to click on the link that says "Write to the Editors".

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011011S0010

Take ABN Amro U.S.A. The Chicago bank first began widescale use of E-mail
in the late 1990s. Various departments began installing their own systems,
and within a few years, there was a mix of some 255 Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, and IBM Wintel servers.........

.............Since consolidation started, the bank has installed five
iSeries servers. This week, it will begin using in its Troy, Mich., office
a sixth iSeries--an 830--which is the latest version of the iSeries server.
The iSeries servers require little baby-sitting, Jacobs says.


John Carr