On 05/05/2006, at 5:53am, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
A long time ago I read that they did TCO studies, and found it less costly to buy lots of low cost hardware over buying fewer high cost systems.
"A long time ago" is the point. When I read similar, the server count was around 8000 -- it would seem that they've grown considerably beyond that now. I doubt they've updated their TCO analysis accordingly... :) Cheers, Vic Cross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390