[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Eric Dittman]

> > For instance, the claims that the z800 is a lot like the
> > previously announced Linux mainframe.  The z800 *IS* the
> > previously announced Linux mainframe.  And a z800 is an
> > incredibly cost-effective web server, based on the results
> > for real-world tests I've seen.  There is a lot of interest
> > in migrating to an S/390 web server from other platforms.
> 
> um, help me out here. but isnt a pair (or quartet or octet or whatever) 
> of netras and a load balancer a more cost effective and more scalable 
> web server?

How many thousands of individual web servers can you run
from a group of Netras?  How much extra floor space and
power is taken up by the group of Netras?  How much extra
do you pay for the OS licenses (z/VM.e is free for use with
Linux and does the load balancing for you)?
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