Timothy,
Can you share some examples of "first in country" new customers?
It need not to be company name, but IMHO the country is not matter of
contract privacy.
It is especially interesting for me because I used to collect
information about mainframe installation in "not so big" countries and
regions like Trinidad & Tobago, Belize, Puerto Rico or Liechtenstein.
Yes, each of mentioned regions does/did have mainframe.
Oh, I forgot about quite small Singapore. That's the place my mainframes
come from. :-)))
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 22.05.2023 o 03:29, Timothy Sipples pisze:
Yes, there are brand new customers buying their first mainframes. IBM periodically
discloses this basic fact. Sometimes I'm personally involved, sometimes when it's a
"first in country" situation. (First in country?!? Yes, really.) And sometimes
I have personal knowledge of other new mainframe customers. I'm reasonably sure I'm not
hallucinating. :-)
It's a big world with many exciting developments.
Most new customers start with Linux but not all. Some add z/OS later. Some start by
renting various virtualized pieces of IBM mainframes on IBM Cloud — there are many such
choices now — then some later add "on premises" machines. Some are banks, some
are not. While there are some common patterns, each new mainframe customer has their own
unique needs.
Thank you all for your support.
—————
Timothy Sipples
Senior Architect
Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity
IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific
sipp...@sg.ibm.com
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