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Year of the Mainframe? Not Quite, Say Linux Grids

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-iron-not-so-big dept.

OSS_ilation writes "IBM touted 2006 as a resurgence year for the mainframe, but not so fast. At R.L. Polk and Co., one of the oldest automobile analytics firms in the U.S., an aging mainframe couldn't cut it, so the IT staff looked elsewhere. Their search led to a grid computing environment — more specifically, a grid computing environment running Linux on more than 120 Dell servers. The mainframe's still there, apparently, but after an internal comparison showed the Linux grid outperforming the mainframe by 70% with a 65% reduction in hardware costs, Polk seemed content banishing the big box to a dark, lonely corner for more medial tasks."

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  1. Re:"medial" tasks? by tim_mcc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, we all hate the redundant tautologies!

  2. Re:"medial" tasks? by berashith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, the tautology!

  3. Re:"medial" tasks? by Monoman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm right there with you. Also, I really like it when a person with a college education pronounces words incorrectly.

    My favorite is "supposubly" and I even worked with a person that said "aks" quite often. I just know some day I will run across an adult saying "pasghetti" in a professional setting. :-)

    I am far from being a qualified grammar nazi. If I notice something is wrong then it must be pretty bad. People just need to slow down sometimes and think about what they are doing.

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  4. Re:"medial" tasks? by eighty4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Burmin'am" (as us locals pronounce it) also has a "G" in it, but that seems to have fallen from use too...