On 17 Jul 2007 12:09:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Kent) wrote: >I agree with your first point, but not your second. There *is* a reason >that SPEC (and other benchmarking organizations) exist. These customers >want a common performance metric to identify the value they are getting for >the money they spend. Yes, reliability, fault-tolerance, data integrity, >etc. are all factors too - but the mainframe does not have a lock on these >features, other platforms do as well, including those based on x86.
If I was making a decision about my shop's hardware, a Standard benchmarking test is a start, as long as they are benchmarking real data processing - but I'm really interested in benchmarking my particular needs. The System is what determines my throughput, response time, and capacity. If a PC has a faster chip than a mainframe, I cannot assume that it will give me better response time with a thousand concurrent users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
