I just saw this tweet from Rich Ptak @PNARICH: Over half of System z 70 NEW customers in 2013 were First-in-Enterprise i.e. brand new users to the mainframe - pretty cool #zin2013
Mike Giaquinto AVP/Principal Engineer CICS Engineering michael.f.giaqui...@wellsfargo.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Aled Hughes Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 4:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points Don The 'analysts' are wrong! This biased article appeared on the BBC who is not known for any opinion/expertise about IBM mainframes - you will also note that no 'person' is attributed to authoring this article. It also quotes Pund-IT who also seem to know nothing about mainframes. Finally, we have a comment from Gartner, a long time advocate of disliking mainframes - I recall attending a Gartner conference back in 1983 when they said 'the mainframe is dead'. I said at the time, 'Long live the mainframe'! Unfortunately, some of IBM's most senior management do not share this view and will always look at the 'bottom line'. However, last quarter's finances speak for themselves. There is a lot of interest in using mainframes instead of massive server farms (zLinux being the key). Maybe our friend Timothy S can chime in here? :-) Cheers ALH -----Original Message----- From: Don Williams <donb...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 1:40 pm Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points The article below does not paint a good future for the mainframe...I hope the analysts are wrong. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19399368 ========================================================================== IBM unveils faster, smaller mainframe IBM has unveiled a mainframe computer it hopes will help head off competition from lower cost PC-based servers. It said the zEnterprise EC12 had cost $1bn (£633m) to develop, producing a machine with processing cores 25% more powerful than earlier models. The re-designed machine also had better security and data-analytics tools than older models, said IBM. The launch comes at a time when, analysts say, the mainframe market is experiencing a long-term decline. IBM is by far the biggest seller of mainframes and the machines remain popular with big banks and other organisations that use the large computers for their heavy data-processing needs. Prices for a basic mainframe, which are based around IBM's own silicon chips, start at about $1m (£633,000). Improvements to security, speed and processing power would keep existing customers happy but were unlikely to win IBM new clients, said analysts. "It's going to be harder and harder for IBM to find new customers and new opportunities for the mainframe," said Charles King, an analyst with research firm Pund-IT. Rather than buy a mainframe, many companies now rely on banks of cheap PC-based servers for their number-crunching needs. IBM said it would start shipping zEnterprise EC12 computers to customers in September. Market-research firm Gartner said the mainframe market was seeing a long-term decline. It estimated that annual sales would fall in 2012 and keep falling every year until at least 2016. During that five year period the market would shrink by 14%, it said. ========================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sumi, Joseph J. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: mainframe "selling" points Hello, I'm looking for ideas to add to what I've come up with so far .... If you are an application and you were deciding what platform you should be developed and run on, what are the KEY items (IE: selling points) associated with the mainframe environment that would steer you to pick the mainframe over other platforms ? IE: I know scalability and availability are factors but other things like ... why DB2 over Oracle, why RACF security over Unix permissions, why z/OS over UNIX (for example) ........... any ideas will be appreciated ! ! Thanks, Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
