My public thanks to a list member who provided some current numbers privately.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Anyone have a good guess as to current number of z or 390 shops? I know IBM does not generally publish numbers, but does anyone have a good working guess they can share with me on the number of organizations worldwide using Z or 390 boxes? Something to the nearest thousand would be great. Alternatively, I could live with the number of organizations in the US only, or the number of installations (as opposed to organizations). Or OS/390 and z/OS numbers as opposed to box numbers including VM and VSE. It's for a presentation to software people who are not familiar with our box. It's not the point of the presentation -- it's just for a "no, the mainframe is not dead" slide that is a footnote to the presentation's main point, which has nothing to do with choice of platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
