On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:37 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: > That leaves just one option: IBM is actually selling more mainframe > capacity.
May be true, if misleading. > Does the number of boxes matter? Not really, no, because of greater > capability. Mmmm - got news for you fella. > For most customers two is a very good number of mainframes to > have (assuming in-house disaster recovery capability). You can get an awful > lot of capacity in a single frame. What I suspect is happening is that a > lot of customers (and more customers) are buying more MIPS, more memory, > more coupling facilities and Parallel Sysplex, and more zAAPs/zIIPs/IFLs, > and they're getting all that in fewer footprints per data center because > fewer can deliver more capacity. When the (original) z/Series roadshow rolled into town, consolidation was *the* message. I posited that IBM seemed to be encouraging customers to dismantle parallel sysplex(es) and consolidate to a single CEC. Was (of course) rejected by the assembled blue army, but blind Freddy could see the end result, even then. What I see happening is more M-thingies (MIP, MSU, Marketing blurb, ...) being sold to fewer sites. And too many of them out-sourcers. >From my perspective, I certainly don't see any of this adding up to more opportunities. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
