Over the last few years I have hoped IBM would become more of a cloud player
and attempt to marry some of the long-standing and well established zEnterprise
strengths; security, reliability, extensibility, performance, etc., with what
I always perceived to be an inherently less secure cloud
I recall Series/1 as being from GSD, the General Systems Division; mainframes
from the Data Processing Division (and FSD, the Federal Systems Division), and
typewriters from Office Products Division. Yes, DPD folks were the king of the
hill; called Office Products (OPD) salesmen "opie-dopies."
You're conflating enterprise with traditional mainframe customers such
as the finance industry. Apple, BP, Shell, Coca-Cola etc all use AWS,
are they not enterprise customers? As for health care, the UK NHS is a
huge AWS customer.
The reputation of IBM's cloud (or maybe just IBM) in Australia
At 6.5%, the iPhone maker’s share in the S 500 just surpassed the record
6.4% that IBM held 35 years ago, data compiled by S Dow Jones Indices and
Bloomberg show. Apple’s overall market cap stands at $1.875 trillion, about
7% away from $2 trillion.
The breakthrough speaks to the strength of a
Hi Charles,
GBG was general business group. DP was Data Processing.
GBG sold Series 1, photocopiers and typewriters, System 34 (back in 1978
when I was there).
DP sold mainframes and believed that they ruled. So when a salesman went to
an account, mainframe was always sold above anything else.
Well, big companies ARE using AWS, GCP, and Azure for critical information.
We deal with them every day.
And for the record, I'm hardly an IBM or mainframe basher. I just call out
BS when I see it, like that 1.3M/second. Which you have not responded to.
It was IBM who said they came up with that
TMA
Too many acronyms.
What is GBG? What is DP?
I know RBG.
Charles
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Of Wayne Bickerdike
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2020 2:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM splitting
Global services was a poor place for "IBM" employees. They weren't the
same as the IBMers in terms of benefits. This has been the trend at IBM
for years. I was an IBMer in the 70s and we hoped that the antitrust cases
would lead to a split so that GBG would separate from DP. It didn't happen
and
6 billion in cloud revenue latest quarter. About half of AZURE. Looks bigger
than 2% to me.
https://cloudwars.co/cloud-wars-top-10-vendors-world/
Read up.
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On Saturday, October 10, 2020, 1:28 PM, zMan wrote:
Bill, you can quote self-serving SHARE fodder all
You’ve been a mainframe & IBM basher for years. And wrong more often than not.
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On Saturday, October 10, 2020, 1:28 PM, zMan wrote:
Bill, you can quote self-serving SHARE fodder all you like, but the fact
remains: IBM cloud is a joke in the industry. Doesn't
You’re comparing 2 entirely different clouds. IBM isn’t in the consumer cloud
market. There is more money in PC’s than there is in mainframes too! And IBM
processes 90% of credit card transactions. You were wrong. No fortune 100
companies are going to use AZURE or AWS for highly critical,
Yeah, big comp
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On Saturday, October 10, 2020, 1:28 PM, zMan wrote:
Bill, you can quote self-serving SHARE fodder all you like, but the fact
remains: IBM cloud is a joke in the industry. Doesn't mean it couldn't
become a player, but that's aspirational at best.
FWIW that is how I took it.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Phil Smith III
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2020 7:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM splitting into two companies
Wayne Bickerdike
Evidently Arvind Krishna thinks the IT Services Division (or whatever it
is) is worthless, as he didn't attempt to sell it, he's just throwing it
out. Apparently, whatever profits it contributes aren't worth the
distraction to his "maniacal" focus on "hybrid cloud". As the divestment
(calling it
Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>Perhaps IBM are prepping to sell off Global Services.
Isn't that what this is? That's what I took "IT infrastructure services unit"
to mean. Am I confused (always possible, probably likely)?
...phsiii
Bill, you can quote self-serving SHARE fodder all you like, but the fact
remains: IBM cloud is a joke in the industry. Doesn't mean it couldn't
become a player, but that's aspirational at best. That SHARE transaction
quote is nonsense--do the math: 1.3M/sec=112,320,000,000 per day. 112
BILLION.
No, but no processors use it. Couple of the brands do.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 12:00 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> what is z/TPF, chopped liver?
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> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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