Merill Lynch. NASA. Amazon.com. Munich, Germany. The 4th fastest supercomputer on Earth, just under three other specialized *ixes. 2/3 of all webservers of all sizes on the Internet. Literally a million other examples, great and small.

That's one hell of a basement.

A cheap $1m mainframe can run 50,000+ virtual and high-powered servers in the footprint of a refrigerator. Let's see you squeeze an equal amount of horsepower from your precious 'doze into an aircraft hangar, let alone anything smaller. Oh, and would you care to hazard a guess as to how much 50,000 MS Windoze licenses alone would cost, let alone the actual software and the hardware to run it all? Your power bill from 50k Windoze boxen would cost more in a year than the entire purchase price of a single z-series mainframe, and still do only half the work.

You see, if you had a clue, you would know that mainframes are where the real work gets done. Your little candy-colored Barbie-Doll OS and it's little toy x86-based hardware ain't jack by comparison.

Maybe one of these days you little instant techie wannabes may get a clue, but until then, you may want to think before you open your keyboard.



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