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Sendmail On IBM Mainframes Running GNU/Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sends-mail dept.

raffe writes: "Cnet reports that Sendmail has released a version of its e-mail server software that can run on Linux-powered IBM mainframe computers. In one benchmark test, IBM found that it was possible to house 2 million e-mail accounts on a single server, with 10 percent of the users accessing their mail at any given moment" For some reason though, IBM zSeries machines aren't listed at pricewatch ;)

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  1. The mainframe's not dead... by Jay+Maynard · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is the kind of thing that mainframes do well: information processing with little or no actual computation. Their I/O abilities really make the difference here.


    Hopefully, this kind of result will show the skeptics that there's a real purpose for the big boxes.

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  2. Re:1.2 Million dollars! by Jay+Maynard · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Image what I could build with 1.2 million in cheap clone hardware... I think I could do at least twice as much processing, and include the pop/imap servers.

    Then you get to maintain and run those thousand boxes. Consider power, floor space, and most importantly, people requirements. (Are you going to maintain those systems yourself? Two or three people, maybe? I don't think so.)


    Sometimes you do get what you pay for.

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