Interesting numbers, Mark. Assume that suse has about half of the zLinux market, it seems that about one 3rd of the customers are using zLinux. Base on numbers I have I estimate the number of mainframe clients at 6,000 more or less. This is an amazing success, even if the number in a quarter only, isn't it? I still wish to hear more, as Charles have different numbers and here in ISRAEL there are no much clients as well (I know of two).
ITschak נשלח מה-iPad שלי ב-6 בנוב׳ 2016, בשעה 2:47, Mark Post <[email protected]> כתב/ה: >>>> On 11/5/2016 at 02:23 PM, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wonder how many of you are using zLinux. In Isrtael only two out of about >> 15 sites use zLinux, not sure they ar happy with it. >> >> The last document I saw reg. zlinx pen. wat from cheril Wattson (Exploiting >> z/OS: Tales From the MVS Survey from 2014) showing only 10% of the >> responders (105) uses zLinux in production and same number does that in >> test. >> >> What are the real numbers? > > IBM doesn't give out a lot of numbers, but they do like to sprinkle some > about. They say that 80 of their top 100 mainframe customers are running > Linux on the mainframe. Sales of IFLs have increased every year since they > were introduced. A lot of that is to existing customers, but not all. They > talk about "new to the mainframe" customers each year, and a lot of those > (but not all) run Linux. My company has over 1,000 Linux on mainframe > customers, including two of the largest in the world. IBM itself is also > quite a large customer, and not just due to their "Project Green" > consolidation efforts. > > I know that Isracard has been a Red Hat customer for quite a while now. Last > I heard, they were pretty happy with the overall results. > > Is there any specific reason why you're asking? > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
