On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 00:08, John Summerfield wrote: > > Convert your favorite CICS app to the Windows world, connect 25000 > > concurrent user sessions and watch the clock - then come back and tell > > us how long the Intel box(ES) stayed alive under that realistic load. It > > boils down to this, at the end of the day the mainframe is still running > > when the Intel units have had to be rebooted multiple time. This goes > > without stating that the number of Intel machines it would take to > > Linux is Linux. Don't confuse Windows' reliability with the reliability of > IA32-based boxes. They can be built to be very reliable indeed, and even the > cheapest PC clones today are much more reliable than mainframes of years gone by.
The mention of Windows in this reply was only used as a fair example since this is still the predominant OS installed on Intel gear, this mention was not offered as a comparison between OSes - no confusion here, sorry if I confused you.
