Well, 5,000 would impressive in that it would be a lot more than some people realize.
In a post a year or two ago I mentioned that a technology VC said to me "mainframes? Does anyone still use those? Does anyone still make them?" Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Porowski, Ken Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Anyone have a good guess as to current number of z or 390 shops? I'm not sure I'd want to know. If it came down to say every one of the Fortune 5,000 (although some might have multiple sites) would you really consider it a selling point that there were only 5,000 shops left (or even 10,000) vs. the googolplex of wintel/*nix shops? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
