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Re:Ask HN: Would it cost less for a large scale company to u... by danielvf on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:36PM (#14932511)
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.

The software architecture benefits wouldn't be there either. They'd still have to build multi data center distributed systems, even with mainframes.

Re:Ask HN: Would it cost less for a large scale company to u... by rich335z on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:41AM (#14977057)
What data do you have to back up this assertion?