imugz...@gmail.com (Itschak Mugzach) writes: > So why don't you save the money and run your corporate network from the > mainframe ;-)
discussion in linkedin "Enterprise Systems" that 4% of IBM revenue is mainframe hardware sales, but mainframe business is 25% of total revenue ... for every dollar of hardware, customers are paying $5.25 for software, services, and storage. http://lnkd.in/mjYX6H A maxed out z196 with 80 processors & rating of 50BIPS goes for $28M or $560,000/BIPS ... however, on avg. customers are paying total of $175M (i.e. 6.25 times the base hardware cost, aka difference between 4% of revenue for just hardware, but total of 25% revenue) ... or $3.5M/BIPS as I've mentioned several times, by comparison IBM has base list price of $1815 for e5-2600 blade rated at 527BIPS or $3.44/BIPS (a factor of million times difference). -- 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
