>>> On 9/7/2012 at 04:40 AM, Roger Bowler <ibm-m...@snacons.com> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:16:03 -0500, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>You can buy and power 300 servers cheaper than one IFL? IBM says that >>many servers would cost 10 times as much to power and cool. > > As Mandy Rice-Davies[1] famously said: "they would, wouldn't they?"
And they'd be right. My experience shows that only 30 servers _at idle_ costs more in power and cooling than a z9EC with 2 IFLs. I don't think things have changed appreciably since then. As Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) once said, "facts are true whether you believe in them or not." Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
