And in some prepared remarks, IBM's CFO Mark Loughridge noted that IBM has added 68 new mainframe customers in the past year. About a third of those are in IBM's "growth markets" (i.e. outside North America, Western Europe, and Japan) — "planting the flag," he said. Loughridge also remarked that System z had its best four quarter period in five years.
So, yes, the mainframe base is expanding into organizations that did not have such an environment before, it seems. DJ On 07/20/2011 01:48 PM, Jim Elliott wrote: >> Any word on processor mix in there (CP vs IFL, etc)? > >> Would be interesting to see how much is new and additional Linux on Z. > > Jonathan: > > Check out my System z update deck at > http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/pdfs/coug-zup.pdf > > Chart 5 shows graphically the last few years (without numbers of course) > on the MIPS split between CPs and each type of specialty engine. > > Chart 6 shows IFL growth. > > Both charts are to YE 2010. We tend to only create these charts after YE, > not after each quarter. > > Jim > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
