Ed Gould writes: >This a tangent issue but it really shows that PC weenies are finally >coming to grips (or not) with power issues with the server farms. >A few weeks ago in one of the trade mags there was an article >(California?) where the power company actually told a place that they >were at the limit for power usage and they would not let them add any >more servers PERIOD. >I regret not having saved the article now as it is extremely (albeit >off on a different issue per se) interesting IMO.
That'd be an interesting article to read. If you can recover the article reference, that'd be great. Even the Wall Street Journal has reported on this issue lately. They are real factors (electricity, floor space, cooling), although the impact will vary depending on your geography and circumstances. Those things aren't getting any cheaper, though. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
