Re:Ask HN: Would it cost less for a large scale company to u...
by danielvf on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:35PM
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Mainframes are tremendously expensive per unit of compute power. Commodity hardware is far cheaper. However Google and Facebook have their own custom designed and built computers that have almost every drop of unnecessary cost squeezed out of them. Mainframes would be incredibly more expensive.
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