On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Bryan Turriff wrote:
I don't think there is much fear about the platform going away (at
some companies perhaps but not on a wide scale). I don't think
that from an IBM perspective that the mainframe has lost 85% of its
customers in the last 15 years. The mainframe is clearly
struggling to attract new workloads (though there is some momentum
in SOA and zLinux) but most mainframe customers are steadily
growing MIPS from existing workloads and some are trying to make it
more strategic.
About the education outreach program - here is a link on IBM's site
that talks about how they are trying to influence course work in
colleges: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/us/en/university/
scholars/products/zseries/
The future may not be as bright as we'd all like it to be, but its
bright enough to get us by.
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But what I am hearing is that there are extremely *FEW* NEW
Mainframes and that is IMO the real problem.
Ed
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