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To: Mike Grove who wrote (17411)	6/28/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) of 64865

People buy mainframes because they can be administered like clock-work. UNIX on the other hand is more of ad-hock OS and a bit of a black-art wrt administration. UNIX admin/monitoring tools are rudimentary and ad-hock. This is baggage that UNIX has inherited in being an OS designed for developers/hackers. Simple... the large Unix servers of today offer many times the processing power at a fraction of the cost. The customers should take some of the savings and invest in training, hire experienced managers, and engineers to run the datacenter. OJT is not the way to go when there is significant dollars at risk. Your kidding right ? What your saying is rather than pay the upfront fixed cost of ensuring we have a reliable, robust solution to run our business on we would rather spend less money now, incur the risk of failures, and spend an undefined amount of money/time later (along with the risks) to try and keep the thing propped up(labour,upgrades)? The trade is not worth it if your running your business on a box. Any intelligent exec or bean counter would rather incur the fixed cost upfront + fixed maintenance rather than roll the dice. Problem is common sense isn't too common.

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