>> Some 23 of the world's top 25 retailers, 92 of the top 100 banks, >> and the 10 largest insurers all entrust core operations to Cobol >> programs running on IBM mainframes, says Deon Newman, vice >> president, IBM System z. Since 2010, around 50 to 75 customers >> have left the mainframe fold, IBM says, while some 270 of IBM's >> 3,500 mainframe customers have come aboard as new clients since >> then, Newman says. >> ... >Since these statistics show a trend that goes counter to the common perception,
Hmmm. Note the careful wording - "System z". How many of those leaving the platform were "legacy" (say z/OS) customers ?. How many of the new clients were non-zLinux ?. What's the delta ?. In this part of the world I see no evidence of increased prospects. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
