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There are applications that are cheaper in a Wintel server than a MF if the amount of data and the resources required can be hendled by the Wintel server. Also programming and changing wintel applications is easier and far cheapr than MF applications. The other factor is client interoperability, especially access to some MF DB2 databases is very tricky from desktop clients.

On the other hand, there are applications that simply can not run on a wintel server because of the amount of data or resources they require.

So, whichever fits best your pocket and political agenda.
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Two sides of this issue  Ardian Daka | 04/08/04
Problems with this logic  ShadeTree | 04/08/04
Problems with this logic too.  phorvath2110 | 04/08/04
Uptime is what MF are for  voska | 04/08/04
Clueless  thepubba | 04/08/04
MF about throughput and manageability too  oldskool | 04/08/04
Per Gartner, mainframe is still the BEST SERVER FOR OLTP  Plain Logic | 04/08/04
And this is why IBM touts Linux  j.m.galvin | 04/08/04
How does....  ShadeTree | 04/08/04
There you go with that common sense thing again.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/08/04
The OS is the most expensive part of the MF  nucrash | 04/08/04
You can buy IBM server instead of MF  voska | 04/08/04
Interoperability is the foe of monopoly  oldskool | 04/08/04
Interoperability is the foe of monopoly  seosamh_z | 04/08/04
ya need to define the requirements first ...  oldskool | 04/08/04
And in further news, MS to sell Oceanfront Arizona properties  oldskool | 04/08/04
And in further news, MS to sell Oceanfront Arizona properties  seosamh_z | 04/08/04
OK, I'll bite ...  oldskool | 04/08/04
Most larger mainframe shops not looking to switch - mainly the smaller ones  Plain Logic | 04/08/04
Cheaper Hardware + Better Performance  richman555 | 04/08/04
apples vs. oranges ... its nice to have both in the fruit salad.  oldskool | 04/08/04

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