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

Leif,

did they also happen to give stats on REAL NUMBER OF CPU's in production?
NOT this 750,000 units crap...stuff that's actually plugged in cranking
cycles?? :)




On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Leif Svalgaard wrote:

> 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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