Ah, right, a few Linux on Z customers, sure. That's...different, and Linux on Z has, alas, kind of withered of late. I had great hopes for it in the early 2000s, but so many of the poster-children have abandoned it (Nationwide, for one). It's not dead by a long shot but doesn't seem to be the mainframe savior we'd hoped for.
If IBM is disclosing these new customers, can you point to a few? On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 9:29 PM Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > Yes, there are brand new customers buying their first mainframes. IBM > periodically discloses this basic fact. Sometimes I'm personally involved, > sometimes when it's a "first in country" situation. (First in country?!? > Yes, really.) And sometimes I have personal knowledge of other new > mainframe customers. I'm reasonably sure I'm not hallucinating. :-) > > It's a big world with many exciting developments. > > Most new customers start with Linux but not all. Some add z/OS later. Some > start by renting various virtualized pieces of IBM mainframes on IBM Cloud > — there are many such choices now — then some later add "on premises" > machines. Some are banks, some are not. While there are some common > patterns, each new mainframe customer has their own unique needs. > > Thank you all for your support. > > ————— > Timothy Sipples > Senior Architect > Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity > IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific > sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
