Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 2) 59

by jhermans on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:15PM (#66318214) Attached to: BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion

In Europe, most of power and phonelines are *below* ground. Unlike the US, which looks to me like a third world country.

Comment Re:What? (Score 5, Funny) 72

by jhermans on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @01:30PM (#65617184) Attached to: Scientists Unlock Secret To Thick, Stable Beer Foams

Are you English by any chance ? Belgians don't want warm flat dishwater.

Comment Re: £, Slashdot (Score 1) 36

by jhermans on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:22PM (#61821845) Attached to: Catalogue of Errors Led To $1.36 Billion of State Pension Underpayments

You should have used â

Comment Re: Why bother changing the law (Score 1) 59

by jhermans on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:38PM (#60532172) Attached to: Russia Wants To Ban the Use of Secure Protocols Such As TLS 1.3, DoH, DoT, ESNI

Donald, is that you ?

Submission + - IBM saves $250 million running Linux on mainframes (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @03:23PM

coondoggie writes: "Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process. The 4,000 servers that IBM will replace by making this change will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services. This change will affect IBM's data centers in Poughkeepsie, New York, Southbury, Conn., Boulder, Col, Portsmouth, UK, Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia. These six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17998"

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