Re: Is CFINT IBM's way of getting rid of RPG?

From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
> 
> But IBM has to come up with a way to price if they want to expand the
> iSeries into the market that has grown up over the last couple of decades.

A recent report from J.P.Morgan (likely commissioned by IBM) gives figures
about how the iSeries market performance is seen.

1999    11.7    12.5    12.1 
2000    10.6    11.3    10.9 
2001     9.0        8.4     8.7 
2002     8.4        7.4     7.9 

The first column is the year, the 2nd column is OS/400 revenue
in % of total IBM software revenue, the 3rd column is AS/400
revenue in % of total IBM hardware revenue. The last column
is the average of 2nd and 3rd.

The decrease is about 1.5%/year. At this rate, the percentage
will reach 0 by 2007. It probably does not pay to struggle any longer
when the percentage drops below say 3 or 2, so we are talking
2005-2006 for when the iSeries goes the way of AD-Cycle, OS/2,
OV.




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