elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) writes: > Around 1990 and so when death of mainframe has been predicted [1], > someone said to me: The technology to completely replace big iron has > not been in place properly. Now, it is still, to my astonishment, > somewhat true! Rather, new things evolved in the meantime.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#16 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers mid-80s, top executives were predicting revenue would double (to approx. $215B in today's dollars) mostly based on mainframe and instituted massive internal building program to double mainframe manufacturing capacity ... this was just at the start when things were began to go in the opposite direction (and it wasn't exactly career enhancing to point it out, also see previous post to the reference about drop in disk sales and communication group stranglehold on the datacenter). early 90s, the company went into the red and top executives re-orged the company into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company ... this was before the board brought in Gerstner to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company (he refocused the company from hardware products to services). The people in POK had been expecting to be totally shutdown and were sending out email referencing "would the last person to leave POK, please turn out the lights". Mainframe sales have been running around $5B/annum (compared to the prediction for $200B+) ... or the equivalent of approx. 180 max. configured z196. -- 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
