<< Snip >> Does the number of boxes matter? Not really, no, because of greater capability. For most customers two is a very good number of mainframes to have (assuming in-house disaster recovery capability). You can get an awful lot of capacity in a single frame. What I suspect is happening is that a lot of customers (and more customers) are buying more MIPS, more memory, more coupling facilities and Parallel Sysplex, and more zAAPs/zIIPs/IFLs, and they're getting all that in fewer footprints per data center because fewer can deliver more capacity. << Snip >>
Thank you Timothy for informing us that the same customers and maybe a few new ones are running fewer "z" machines to do more. Why are they ordering bigger machines? Could it be the introduction of DB2 Version 8 or 9? Trying to run Websphere on "z"? Software is a good market for IBM because it also drives hardware revenue. I don't know how to figure this into the profitability of any particular software product, but it is definitely there. Tom Moulder My opinions. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.2/766 - Release Date: 4/18/2007 7:39 AM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
