And then there's this: http://www.esj.com/articles/2009/03/31/Big-Iron-Bucks-Trend.aspx
There's a really interesting "experiment" going on here. A few shops every so often depart the mainframe, a few shops acquire them for the first time (including to run z/OS -- I personally did some work in two such cases over the past two months) regularly, and an awful lot of shops growing their MIPS and, as the author cites, "doubling down." (Though MIPS growth does not linearly contribute to IT headcount. It's very sub-linear due to profound mainframe economies of scale.) That statistic cited in the above article (and not from IBM) is just amazing to me: more (new, incremental) MIPS forecast to be sold in 2009 than were *installed* in 2000. Wow. So this is a marketplace contest of sorts to see who's got the most efficiency (on a quality-adjusted basis) in their IT service delivery. There are so many very savvy IT organizations betting heavily that the modern mainframe is a critical element in peak IT service delivery efficiency. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
