Sorry, I missed an important nuance in what IBM's CFO said. Here's what I wrote (directly out of the prepared remarks):
>4. IBM shipped a record number of System z specialty engines in the >quarter, indicating strong demand for placing new applications on the >mainframe. That's *number* of engines (zAAPs, zIIPs, IFLs). And that's a really important distinction because each System z10 EC engine has much more capacity than, say, a z990 or z9 engine. Thus the strong demand to run new mainframe application workloads is that much greater when you look at the real capacity. OK, back to regularly scheduled programming..... - - - - - 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
