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http://mndoci.com/blog/2007/04/26/mainframes-vs-the-grid/

Nick Carr has an interesting post on his blog about some new iron from IBM and Sun. What I found interesting was the comment towards the end about specialized machines of the kind IBM and Sun excel at and the large global grid of the kind Google has built.

Check out this post it raises some interesting thoughts, I remember Chris once said to me mainframe is dead, that grid will take over, however, I’m not so sure, there are those in-house designed/bought in applications that are written for mainframes that work, the cost of migrating them might be significantly more than supporting the mainframe, can both co-exist then? Absolutely, it’s all about what’s right for your business and your application – whatever works, mainframe, desktop or a typewriter…

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