On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:26:05 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >IIRC, when Greg Lotko referenced these same statistics during his >keynote address at SHARE in Boston, he mentioned that approximately 40% >of those "new" customers were z/OS.
I wonder where I was at the time - I'm pretty sure that would have piqued my interest had I been present. >Having said that, my understanding is that this count of "new" customers >includes customers that completely reversed previously confirmed, >in-progress business plans to migrate off the mainframe. IMHO, it is >completely fair to count them as "new" since their moribund 9672s >running just a few hard-to-kill apps under OS/390 V2R4 have now been >replaced with zEC12s running z/OS 2.1 and a renewed business focus to >move work onto the platform. They're not all "moribund 9672s" - a local customer here was turfing out a couple of 196s and had to hurriedly roll in a couple of EC12 when the backflip occurred. And no, unlike yourself, I don't count them as "new". Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
