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Linux® on the Mainframe
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Linux® on the Mainframe

by John Eilert, Maria Eisenhaendler, Dorothea Matthaeus, Ingolf Salm
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
Pearson
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6.4. ISPCompany: TCO considerations

6.4.1. Software

ISPCompany buys most of its software through site licenses (when these are available) and shares savings with its clients. The benefit to their customers is that they get a larger choice for less cost to them.

ISPCompany offers a choice of two distributions to their customers: SuSE and Red Hat. The more consolidated servers there are, the cheaper they become. The more standardized the servers can be, the easier they are to maintain and create.

6.4.2. Occupancy

ISPCompany pays as part of its overhead for the IT infrastructure and utility costs. Its clients do not need the space and utility costs (and the headaches of redundancy, and so forth). They indirectly just pay a share of the costs.

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