> Where's an industry analyst when you need one ???. Repairing cars to pay the rent. Will testiculate for food.
Ludicrous numbers. a) What is "new" - give me a cut-off date or a style of aplication. IBM has realised for years now that mainframe price/performance is a bad joke and only people who cannot afford to reimplement their systems stay on the platform. There have been almost no new net wins for years, while VSE licences have declined 60% or so in 10 years. But how to compete? Answer: Offer discounts of up to 90% for "new" applications. Vide z/OS.e, eNALC, for example. And let the stable customers carry on paying sky-high charges. Which leads to a simple fact in most branch office situations - if a business partner or salesman can get a customer's application through as "new" he can get software pricing that might work. If he can't, he can forget the deal. The commission percentages are better, too. A HUGE amount of pseudo-new application load has gone through this system, and some moron with a spreadsheet has added up the numbers and said: "Gee, that's 60%." Well, of course it is you fool - what did you expect? So 40% - corollary - is "old". I'd like to know what the relationship is between this "old" MIPS and the same figure five years ago. My guess would be down 80%. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
