[email protected] (Ed Jaffe) writes: > In every presentation I've seen where a statistic like this was > presented, it was always qualified as "business data". In that > context, it implied data bases of core customer, account, transaction, > billing, and inventory data (et al) maintained by the world's largest > corporations for their applications. I do not think the presenters > meant to include things like, for example, the millions of copies of > Microsoft Office running on business PCs as "business data".
IBM's claims used to be not just mainframe but also IMS. trivial issue is that the "big data" movement has turned an enormous amount of stuff into "business data" (far in excess of traditional legacy business data). in some cases the mainframe releated costs are millions times that of technology being used for "big data" ... as a result, non-mainframe "big data" processing much easier to show positive ROI. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
