Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 11/10/10 20.45, Aaron Bartell skrev:
> I am curious though, how many man hours does it take to maintain the
> equivalent horizontal scale with Windows?  And then with Linux.  My
> guess would be that the man hours would be much more, and that is
> where the $1.43 million becomes more justified.  You could easily
> require two $50k/yr admins to work on 100 Windows servers to keep them
> all jiving.  Note my numbers are all in theory, I don't know what the
> going rate is for a good admin, nor do I know how many servers it
> would take to equal the IBM i config mentioned.
So am I.

To get any idea of what is needed, it is important to know what workload 
the system to be compared with can handle.   I am aware that the IBM i 
can handle a LOT of concurrent stuff and do it well.