The mainframe certainly isn't dying, from "Big-Iron Brouhaha" (http://esj.com/Articles/2011/02/15/Big-Iron-Brouhaha.aspx?Page=1):
"Systems and Technology had fantastic performance, with 21 percent growth. We had growth in every platform, but the most impressive growth was in our System z mainframes, which were up almost 70 percent," said CFO Mark Loughridge, in Big Blue's Q4 earnings conference call. and... Also during Q4, IBM picked up two dozen new System z customers I, too, wished IBM would do more to highlight the z series capabilities in public forums, but Watson is a massively parallel system (2K+ cores, I believe), and I have my doubts as to whether or not a collection of z10s could be integrated together tightly enough to meet the software's requirements. I could be wrong, however. :-) DJ On 02/16/2011 08:23 AM, Larry Macioce wrote: > I am a little disappointed that IBM chose p7s to play on rather than a > mainframe loaded with Linux. > I think it would have given the mainframe a boost. I am in a PM class and > heard from a classmate yesterday how the mainframe is dying. > By placing watson on blades this just lends fuel to the fire of the > mainframe can't handle it. > > Just my .02. > Mace > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
