Anyone have experience with mainframes when it comes to this level of cost/performance? I suppose 500k USD is still too "cheap" to consider more special hw/syst

Anyone have experience with mainframes when it comes to this level of cost/performance? I suppose 500k USD is still too "cheap" to consider more special hw/systems - but where's the cut-off when getting a monster running db2 and Code in a Linux VM or something?