Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

Sorry to play, devils advocate here so much...

With that equivalent Windows/Linux setup though, if a server goes down
nobody wold know. If that one 1.4 million dollar server goes down, there
will be hell to pay from upper management. Granted if your dropping that
kind of cash on a server, you would have two of them for that scenario.

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I am curious though, how many man hours does it take to maintain the
equivalent horizontal scale with Windows? And then with Linux. My
guess would be that the man hours would be much more, and that is
where the $1.43 million becomes more justified. You could easily
require two $50k/yr admins to work on 100 Windows servers to keep them
all jiving. Note my numbers are all in theory, I don't know what the
going rate is for a good admin, nor do I know how many servers it
would take to equal the IBM i config mentioned.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Den 11/10/10 19.37, Charles Wilt skrev:

And according to this, 64 is the most you can get:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh082310-story03.html
a special PRPQ will only let it span 64 cores and 256 threads.

"So a full 64-core system using the slow processors would cost you $1.43
million just for the base hardware chassis and the processors."

You can get a lot of commodity hardware for that amount of money for
horizontal scaling....

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