>>> On 9/7/2008 at 9:02 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, william JANULIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other question is, what percentage of mainframe sales is 'replacement > business' like new cars. How many 'new' mainframe shops have been added to > the fold?
According to my contacts at IBM, a few, and up from the previous year. We're talking single digits. The good news (for me, anyway) is that they were Linux-only shops. No z/OS. I'm also aware of a couple of existing z/OS shops that are talking about going to Linux-only. I don't think that's a good idea technically, but I can understand it would save a lot of software licensing costs. Mark Post
