In <[email protected]>, on
06/15/2012
at 06:14 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS <[email protected]> said:
>But unfortunately, the mainframe is the only server of which we truly
>know how much it costs.
It may be the only server for which the OS provides accounting
information, but that's not the same think. We don't know how much of
the cost of the box is in support of instruction execution, how much
in support of memory and how much in support of I/O. Then there is the
issue of allocating DASD expenses. Ditto environmentals and staff.
What makes the mainframe marginally easier is that there is a smaller
number of boxes and they all come out of the same budget.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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