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I wonder how much of that savings comes from closing data centers and how much from getting off IBM mainframes. It's hard for me to see why a company like FedE
by tgflynn 4y ago
I wonder how much of that savings comes from closing data centers and how much from getting off IBM mainframes. It's hard for me to see why a company like FedEx would need to be spending anything like $400m a year on data centers unless a big chunk of that is paying IBM to rent their mainframes.
- tgflynn 4y agoIt would be interesting if those down-voting my comment would explain where my intuition is wrong. FedEx delivers 12 million packages per day. If each package requires 10 transactions that works out to about 40k transactions per second. You should be able to handle that with 1 IBM mainframe or much less than 1000 servers and I don't believe either of those would approach $400 million per year to operate.