Thanks Tim. I suspected new customers were buying mainframes and I was waiting for confirmation from someone like you who knew.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, May 21, 2023, 9:29 PM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: Yes, there are brand new customers buying their first mainframes. IBM periodically discloses this basic fact. Sometimes I'm personally involved, sometimes when it's a "first in country" situation. (First in country?!? Yes, really.) And sometimes I have personal knowledge of other new mainframe customers. I'm reasonably sure I'm not hallucinating. :-) It's a big world with many exciting developments. Most new customers start with Linux but not all. Some add z/OS later. Some start by renting various virtualized pieces of IBM mainframes on IBM Cloud — there are many such choices now — then some later add "on premises" machines. Some are banks, some are not. While there are some common patterns, each new mainframe customer has their own unique needs. Thank you all for your support. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
