In a message dated 7/17/2008 11:45:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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. >> I read thru the thing at _http://www.ibm.com/investor/2q08/_ (http://www.ibm.com/investor/2q08/) and it looked like a lot of consolidation back to the mainframe-most likely z/VM and z/Linux. Especially if you look at decline in i-System on p.21. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
