Mainframes Anonymous 1: Intervention

[mwrutherford]

Dell, you need to fire whomever you paid to come up with these commercials. They suck bad. IBM's mainframe commercials are much funnier.

[misterfun54]

who thought this was a good idea?

[timcorneo]

In an objective analysis, taking into consideration the REAL COSTS associated with the choice, it's clear that 'mainframe' comes out on top in all but the smallest businesses. Anyone that deals with REALITY knows that. Don't buy it Danny. They're selling you a load of crap.

[catwild51]

Really Dell? In 2011? This is your ad campaign?

Oh and lets not forget x86 sprawl. Rack afer rack after rack because almost every app gets a server of it's very own. This includes the apps that can bet be described as some executive's commode pipe dream.

[mperew]

My mainframe also isn't susceptible to wintel malware attacks. It supports thousands of concurrent thick client users, has a rather large disk farm, and has high security. The last time someone tried to port key applications to a wintel server, it was taking 26 hours to get through a job that runs in 2 hours on my mainframe.

Or, to borrow from a current phrase: Your argument is invalid.

[falaicha]

lol i recently replaced a rack server with a WD Anywhere box in Raid 1+0 setup for fileserver and backup server. Web and Mail are pushed to hosting company.. No more humming mumming noisy rack servers in office anymore!! :P

[tmstone835]

Would Dell admit that the mainframe probably never, ever goes down unlike their servers? Would they mention replacing parts while in operation? Would they mention the new mainframes that aren't any bigger than a half rack and vastly more powerful than their beefiest Intel server. Hmm...didn't think so.

[andy31419]

Unfortunatly servers are like bunnies they keep making more. LOL We have a vendor that uses an iSeries (I consider it a mainframe) and one that uses servers from the makes of the video. I have to upgrade the servers every three years and what started as one has grown to three and it runs one program. I know a bunch of that is on the software vendor. But on the other side, I use the iSeries as a SAN for a blade center and I would put one of those servers up against any stand alone server.

[RealDragonHawk]

The computer in the prop photograph is a DEC PDP, which is a minicomputer, not a mainframe.[/pedantic]

[rgibson711]

To get old school. I had a hell of a time getting the first servers in the same room as the mainframe. No one took it very serious. Now the blades occupy the same foot print.