6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
3:38 p.m.
On 05/09/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> 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.
[2] how many new green-field deployments are happening?
Not all are, but they were available. Still are, if
you want to get an
IBM Bladecenter JS20. Just not in a Mac.
They aren't now, as they're all Intel Core2 today. They were, though:
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g5-dual.html
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g5-quad.html
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. Also, in other messages in this thread, people have
been saying stuff to
the effect that pSeries and zSeries aren't architecturally all that
different anymore. Anyone who says that hasn't used zSeries hardware.
Well, it's a fair cop, I haven't. But then, this discussion at least
started out as one about CPUs.
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