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  3. October 2003

RE: OS/400 on a Sun unix

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adam Lang


| I take it as part of the "performance" of the OS you expect from
| Solaris and
| iSeries is due to the hardware also.

Yeah.

| If you are ok with the
| performance of
| low end commodity hardware, it is typically more cost efficient to go a
| different OS route.

This is where things blur, because of technologies like clustering and even
more Grid (couldn't find the link I wanted, but
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/central/feature.html).  As in past, but
ESPECIALLY when Grid becomes marketable on other platforms besides z, there
is a LOTTA power in (what used to be considered) low-end.

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