As we monitor the health of the mainframe marketplace, there's continued good news. The earnings call highlighted mainframes, with strong growth in all geographies. (The strongest was in Europe for the record.) IBM's earnings per share rose to $1.45, beating Wall Street consensus by 10 cents.
AP, Reuters, Marketwire, etc. all have earnings-related news reports in the usual places. Here's a Reuters quote, for example: "Sales were also helped by demand for IBM mainframe computers used by corporations, governments and universities for complex computing tasks. Overall, hardware revenue rose 8.9 percent to $5.58 billion." Of course that includes new first time mainframe customers such as Nexxar. A replay of the earnings call is available at http://www.ibm.com/investor for those interested. This is very good news indeed, and I do see (in my own little world anyway) ample anecdotal evidence of IBM pouring more investment into the platform (and its people). Strong growth businesses do tend to get the investment dollars. Hopefully that helps everyone in the mainframe community at least to some extent. Speaking for myself. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
