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WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive to Operate Than Linux Mainframe Benchmark Study

Overview For the past several years, IBM has positioned its z900 mainframe as a superior platform for consolidation of WindowsÂ® servers, especially for file serving and web serving. However, IBM has provided no data based on standard, cross-platform benchmarks to prove these claims. This report thoroughly measures the IBM mainframe against Windows servers using the same standard file serving and web serving benchmarks.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007	Downloads	82
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Web Servers, IT Reliability, Network Operating Systems, OS Interoperability, Linux Server OS, Storage Management, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, x86-standard Servers

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