mw...@ssfcu.org (Ward, Mike S) writes: > IBM has always been a hardware company. In the 60's they wrote > operating systems and gave them away as long as you purchased the > hardware from them to run it on.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#16 X86 server http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#18 X86 server http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#19 X86 server became much less so after Guerstner resurrected ibm. recent revenue was 83% software and services with everything else ... including all hardware, 17%. mainframe, x86, and power hardware were approx. $5B each max configured z196 with 80 processors is rated for 50BIPS and goes for $28M (about $560,000/BIPS) and at $28M, $5B represents approx. 180 max. configured z196 (180*50 or aggregate of 9TIPS processing) ibm has base price of $1815 for e5-2600 blade ... which have ratings at 527BIPS (about $3.44/BIPS), at $1815, $5B represents approx. 2,754,800 e5-2600 blades (2754800*527 or aggregate of 1,452,000TIPS). Even if you inflate the base blade price by a factor of ten times, that reduces the number of blades (you could get for $5B) to 275,480 with aggregate processing power of 145,000TIPS On the other hand the major cloud operators have claimed that they manufacturer blades with optimal components for 1/3rd the cost of brand name blades ... with a cloud megadatacenter typically containing several hundred thousand blades. a couple recent ibm-main references to Guerstner's resurrect of ibm: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#74 IBM Doing Some Restructuring? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#34 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
