> > But for how much longer ... I wonder?
> >
> > I am watching the huge inroads being made by clustered Linux taking out
> > Sun's and H/P's more expensive offerings. I built an 8 CPU cluster a few
> > weeks back with less than $11,000 US in hardware.
> >
> > How long before it becomes easy to build OS/390 equivalent machines
> > with a rack of 2 CPU x 4GB Intel boxes running RedHat AS?
> >
> > I suspect far sooner than you want to imagine.
> >
> > And when the big iron goes ... do you think DB2 will survive? Informix,
> > in my opinion, has a better chance of surviving.
> >
Big iron is not as big, nor as expensive, as it once was. The actual
hardware boundaries between mainframe and smaller computers are starting to
disappear. The biggest cost of a mainframe is the software, and OS/390 and
z/OS are still formidable products for certain applications in large
enterprises.
Received on Sat May 29 2004 - 23:32:39 CDT
