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Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes by hoppyhoppy2 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:12AM (#31989176)
It's probably worth remembering that a company the size of FedEx isn't going to be paying the listed prices.
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes by ElectricalUnion on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#31991346)
They actually probably be paying more that the average listed prices, as Mainframe (basically a on-premise PaaS, where IBM rents you high performance, distributed and redundant hardware cluster on a pay-as-you-use manner) users are often dependent on very high reliability, high uptime and low latency.