Ed Finnell writes: >I read thru the thing at 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.
You have to be very careful about the System i numbers though, and Loughridge explained this. When you buy a new system to run IBM i OS, you are now increasingly buying System p branded servers. IBM is phasing out separate branded hardware as the models get updated. (For some years now the underlying hardware has been virtually identical anyway -- the POWER microprocessors definitely -- but now it's official.) So some of the System p sales are to run i OS (on the whole server or part of the server), and reported System i sales reflect only System i branded server models. That's my understanding anyway, and I think that's reflected in the statement. Yes, IFLs are one of the specialty engine types doing very well. The others are zAAPs and zIIPs. - - - - - 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
