Comment Re:Taking Mainframes to the Desktop? (Score 1) 325
You've hit on my reason for doing the superfarm project!!
If you follow IDC's evaluation guidelines for TCO, 23% of the cost of a solution is hardware, 37% is facilities and operations, and the remainder is people. It's not uncommmon to have only one or two VM systems programmer in a whole organization. I've seldom seen an Unix-based organization with a staff of less than 10.
Think also about application licensing -- at $495 a seat, MS Office is pretty expensive. What if you only had to buy ONE copy and share it? What if all your files were in ONE place, not scattered around on floppies or odd servers? The point about the mobility of your desktop is a fantastic one -- if your cube is under construction, just move to a working one -- voila, your environment is just the same as it was at "home". All your data is there. All your tools are there.
It's just so...obvious to do this.
If you follow IDC's evaluation guidelines for TCO, 23% of the cost of a solution is hardware, 37% is facilities and operations, and the remainder is people. It's not uncommmon to have only one or two VM systems programmer in a whole organization. I've seldom seen an Unix-based organization with a staff of less than 10.
Think also about application licensing -- at $495 a seat, MS Office is pretty expensive. What if you only had to buy ONE copy and share it? What if all your files were in ONE place, not scattered around on floppies or odd servers? The point about the mobility of your desktop is a fantastic one -- if your cube is under construction, just move to a working one -- voila, your environment is just the same as it was at "home". All your data is there. All your tools are there.
It's just so...obvious to do this.
