Daily 'no, seriously dude, wtf'?

[DodgyAgent]

A little secret, Windows or Linux, if you're using Intel Processors you're still going to hit latency issues...

You clever little permie you

[stek]

A little secret, Windows or Linux, if you're using Intel Processors you're still going to hit latency issues...

POWER7, Micropartitioning and DLPAR, it's the future, like Garlic Bread.

[IR35 Avoider]

For some extra context re. 100 records per minute, as it happens I loaded a table into a mainframe test database just before lunch, 2.1 million 217 column records in 18.5 minutes.

Not particularly quick compared to the Linux machine cited, admittedly.

The same data, transformed into csv format, loads on SQL Servers running SQL Server 2000, on live servers also handling normal daytime load, in about 45 minutes.

[Platypus]

For some extra context re. 100 records per minute, as it happens I loaded a table into a mainframe test database just before lunch, 2.1 million 217 column records in 18.5 minutes.

Not particularly quick compared to the Linux machine cited, admittedly.

The same data, transformed into csv format, loads on SQL Servers running SQL Server 2000, on live servers also handling normal daytime load, in about 45 minutes.

I expect the SQL Server 2000 machine cost a lot less than the mainframe!

TCA / TCO anyone ?

[darmstadt]

I expect the SQL Server 2000 machine cost a lot less than the mainframe!

TCA / TCO anyone ?

Can't be bothered getting the figures but on my mainframe I can run hundreds of OS'es and each one running a database appliction (DB2, MySQL, Oracle, whatever) I think you'll find in the end that the mainframe will be cheaper to maintain...