State of the System i: First-Hand Reports from Second-Hand Dealers
October 22, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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While few people think about it, much less talk about it, some of the things that make any data center-class computer system worth the extra money that companies shell out for them include the fact that they last for a long time without breaking and their components hold economic value for a lot longer than cheaper commodity iron. It is not unheard of for a mainframe or midrange server to run without any problems for a decade, particularly among companies with steady or only modestly growing workloads. It is not so easy to find commodity X86 servers that last so |