I can say that UHG (United Health Group) is eliminating their z machines. The one I worked on is gone. The data was ported to something called Facets, a vendor product. The historical reports were put in some sort of archive tool.
I cannot say with total confidence, but I've been told they are going pure Wintel. On Wed, May 10, 2023, 10:11 Bill Johnson < 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Last IBM earnings in April indicated z sales were up 7%. From the earnings > report, “sales of Z mainframe computer systems increased by 7% following > the release in May of the Z16 model.” > But, I’m not enthused about IBM (the company) at all. In fact I stated the > stock has traded in a range of 120-140 for awhile and I wouldn’t invest in > it, but did trade it once or twice. > What I am enthused by is the likelihood of the mainframe being the > platform of choice by real banks, healthcare companies, insurance > companies, big retailers, and others, for decades into the future, long > past our lifetimes. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 10:09 AM, Mohammad Khan < > 0000047f0e31a222-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > But Bill definitely does and almost makes up for IBM's failing with his > abundant enthusiasm ! > > On Tue, 9 May 2023 12:21:03 -0500, John McKown < > john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> > >IMO, IBM doesn't really care about that much about z anymore. > <snip> > > mkk > > PS: Not Friday yet but it's the hump-day so are almost there :) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
