6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
8:29 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
I am sure you're right. I've read lots about
this myself. But from
what I have read, it is not actually selling that many new mainframes.
I've read figures of single-digit sales per year.
Much, much more than single-digit sales per year. I can see them being
shipped from just down the hall from my office. It's a lot more than
single digits per year.
It may be millions of US$ worth of business but
it's not many actual
systems. Indeed I think a fair bit of this sort of consolidation is
happening by way of outsourcing to 3rd party datacentres - possibly on
machines still owned by IBM.
Yes, it's doing well. We are still not talking large volumes, though,
by /any/ measure.
Be careful with words like "any".
Peace... Sridhar