If you run Linux for your OS and Apache for your web server and PostgreSQL
for your database, you won't have licensing costs. You won't get paid
support, of course, but that's a compromise that many sites seem willing
to make.
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> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
> >
> > >If your point 1 were accurate, management would dump those servers.
> >
> > Two points that substantiate the TCA argument (or, to be more
> > presice ICA (initial cost of acquisition)):
> >
> > 1. Mainframe DASD costs more than midrange disk.
> > (Even IBM's DS series).
> > 2. IFL's cost arounnd 100K (US).
> > ("I can buy a lot of servers for that price" -- a manager I know).
>
> Yep.... And each one of those servers requires a physical connection to
> electrical power; each requires an operating system license; each one
> that runs a database requires a DBMS license, etc., etc. Oh, did you
> want Test/Development and QA copies too? More $$$$$.
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