The U of KY shut down it's mainframe in 2006 +/- after setting up all new apps (SAP) on DB2 on AIX on pSeries machines, 4 of them, 3 p570's and a p550. Cost and energy savings, nada. But the savings from being able to hire fresh grads for support/development over veteran mainframers may have been an incentive.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust > IBM has 11 years to convince their management the mainframe is good idea. > They didn't succeeded or even didn't try. IBM used to give huge discounts to universities. About 15-20 or so years ago they did away with the discounts and universities started migrating off the mainframe. The few that are left mostly use mainframes for some type of administrative processing. The processing done by students is done on PCs or on eunuchs systems, where years ago the processing was done on mainframes. I don't think IBM failed to convince the university in question to stay on the mainframe; I think IBM abandoned the educational mainframe market a long time ago. > BTW: "green" is sales pitch. My "green" z10 consumes exactly 50% more > power than blue z9. I can't dispute this statement as we don't have a z10 (yet). I would be interested whether other z10 customers share your findings. I would also like to hear a response from IBM. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
