For the record, when I spoke with the folks at Datamation the week before LinuxWorld, IBM had yet to make all of their LinuxWorld announcements. And IBM had yet to reveal the 1,300 figure to the general public. So mentioning "over 1,000 of its zSeries z900 systems" was an accurate way of stating the facts and getting my point across without pre-empting IBM's own announcement of 1,300 shipped. Remember, back around October/November 2001, IBM publicly announced they shipped their 1,000 zSeries system to Boscov's, a department store corporation headquartered in Reading, PA.
As for the 60-65% range for non-traditional workloads, that was verified back around the October 2001 timeframe, and it represents ALL non-traditional workloads. Linux is a piece of that, but Websphere-based workloads represent a large chunk of that number. So the 60-65% doesn't represent Linux-only MIPS. In 4Q2001, IBM estimated 11% of MIPS shipped were for dedicated-Linux workloads. But again, the important point of the 60-65% number is that the majority of zSeries MIPS shipped are being deployed in support of non-traditional, non-legacy workload scenarios. Hope that helps for those with inquiring minds... Regards, Dave Mastrobattista David N. Mastrobattista Senior Industry Analyst Giga Information Group e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Datamation: Server Hardware Product of the Year 2001 (IBM z900) > "IBM was the big winner because they already had the > technology in place and were able to deliver in > quantity," he says. Indeed, IBM has sold over 1,000 > of its zSeries 900 ... > Even more surprising than the number of MIPS (millions > of instructions per second) shipped, says Mastrobattista, > is the fact that 60-65 percent of them were for > non-traditional workloads ... A curious mixture. The '60-65%' figure is comparatively new - by the time it was being widely used, IBM was stating _1300_ sales of z900s. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
