> But sorts and searches (DB2, 650 million records, randomly generated)
> on my G5 running z/OS on z/VM easily beat the living shit out of the
> same operation on my login server (eight processor 700MHz Pentium III
> Xeon, Linux).

Sure, but it won't beat the living shit out of a farm of 6000 high-end
PCs, or even a few hundred high-end PCs.