Mainframe sales

Keanehelp · New User Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 71 Location: USA, CA.

Hi,

Just out of curiosity.

Does anyone know if organizations/firms are still buying mainframes?

Or on a lighter note If I become insanely rich (

yeah, that is possible) in future and create a huge financial firm, should I go for a mainframe machine or some other technology?

Please suggest as your suggestion might help me in effective maintenance of my huge financial firm....

Akatsukami · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:06 pm

Keanehelp · New User Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 71 Location: USA, CA.

Thanks for the tip Akatsukami....

Don't you think that future owner of a huge financial firm would have already done that.

.I am looking for different opinions.

On a serious note
I see that IBM makes a killing in mainframe market, but I also hear a lot of talk about MF migration. Therfore a little confused...

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:58 pm

Hello,

People who sell Win-based solutions will certainly have lots to say about MF migration. And there are thousands and thousands of Win-based products available.

None of my clients has yet to migrate their mainframe(s) to some Win-based environment/configuration.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:32 pm

If you'll look at the IBM's Announcement of 2Q 2013 Earnings - you'll find that zEnterprise revenue is up by 10%. IBM's CFO, Mark Loughridge, mentioned on the earnings call for analysts that he expects another double digit revenue growth quarter for zEnterprise in the third quarter.