take on competition effect on the market and the mainframe pricing Financial Matters: Mainframe Processor Pricing History http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=article&aid=346
from above (2006) article: is that the price per MIPS today is approximately six times higher than the $165 per MIPS that the traditional technology/price decline link would have produced ... snip ... past posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#51 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#56 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#62 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#63 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#66 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#70 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#71 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#79 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html