Charles Mills wrote: >Anyone have any idea how successful it has been? ....The answer matters >to the MVS community because if IBM can sell a warehouse full of them it >will support further mainframe hardware development, which must >currently seem to IBM to be a small niche market.
Where do you get your "must" from? IBM often reports IBM z System/LinuxONE hardware revenues in its quarterly earnings reports. Even with a "tough compare," in the latest quarter (4Q2016 as I write this) mainframe hardware revenues were up, capacity deliveries up more, and margins up, too. Of course that's not counting other, related revenue and profit. IBM's CFO also reported 8 new customers in the quarter, 29 in 2016, and 80 since introduction of the IBM z13. https://www.ibm.com/investor/events/earnings/4q16.html So, successful, very. Thank you! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
