Contact your friendly IBM Business Partner. They will help you size the boxes, perform the financial analysis, loan some hardware for POC,... Pretty much the whole enchilada. The bulk of the savings are in software licenses (e.g. ORACLE), not to mention the rats nests of cables....) . Jim Marshall on IBM-MAIN a couple of years back did a zero-based study from that pick the z boxes over server farms.
In my own case (100+ boxes), the savings in ORACLE licenses alone justified the exercise. HTH, <snip> Subject: Justifications Anyone gone through moving to VM/Linux and have stats/figures that justified moving from one platform to another .. Interested on iSeries and Intel .. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
