Re: The Obsolete mainframe?

Sure keep me in clothes, shoes and feed for about 20+ years plus of course
my family. If they are dead, I must be working on ghost machines......lol

Scott Ford
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Edward Jaffe
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 8:01 PM
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Subject: Re: The Obsolete mainframe?

Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Which itself is biasing the number, since some major mainframe
hardware and software vendors nowadays derive a preponderance of
their "total earnings" from non-"mainframe hardware and software"
lines of business.


From what I know, just the opposite is true. Mainframe revenues at
large ISVs subsidize their entire business -- including massive
expenditures developing products for non-mainframe platforms.

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