And are these new or 'refreshed' mips? I know of a company that dumped their mainframe for all INTEL boxes... Some of the reasons were laughable, i.e. the MP3000 took up too much space . the MP3000 used too much power .. The MP3000 was too slow.. The only real valid reason was that (at the time SAP wasn't certified foe LINUX/390)was to reduce staff and used canned software (SAP).
That was about 7 yrs. ago. I understand that now they have INTEL servers hanging from the ceiling, have upgraded power and air conditioning, hired more techs.. the list goes on. Now with a new management team in place plans are to go back to a mainframe z/10 and consolidate the INTELS on z/LINUX guests.. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX? On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 9/7/2008 at 9:02 AM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, william JANULIN > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other question is, what percentage of mainframe sales is 'replacement > > business' like new cars. How many 'new' mainframe shops have been added to > > the fold? > > According to my contacts at IBM, a few, and up from the previous year. >We're talking single digits. The good news (for me, anyway) is that they >were Linux-only shops. No z/OS. I'm also aware of a couple of existing >z/OS shops that are talking about going to Linux-only. I don't think >that's a good idea technically, but I can understand it would save a lot >of software licensing costs. > > > Mark Post > Wish I could get management here interested in Linux on the z. We had it for a short time. Somebody had the idea that Linux on z could be use to consolidate WINDOWS workloads directly (like VMWare on Intel, but using Linux on z under z/VM). We do have some RHEL servers in the Intel-space. I don't know what is "in vogue" now in that area. The previous Intel infrastructure person wanted to replace everything possible with AIX. I would rant more, but I get rather nasty. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown
