6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
4:01 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
It may well be, yes. But is it not more relevant to ask:
[1] how large is its proportional market share now compared to 5, 10,
20, 30y ago? I don't have any figures, but I bet its %age of the
market /now/ is tiny compared to in the 1970s.
It depends on how you define the market for a mainframe. It's not the
same market as for a Windows PC, and it never was.
z/OS is a "legacy" OS? Sure doesn't
look that way to me.
Am I just blind today or something?
I was going to say something to that effect.
*sigh*
I believe MVS is selling/running on a greater number of copies now than
it ever has in the past. [2] how many new green-field deployments are
happening?
Many, many, MANY more than before. Less profit per install, but many,
many more installs. Read up on zLinux and what it's doing to the market
for mainframes.
Peace... Sridhar