The numbers I have (for z/OS) from a big distro in the states talks about 3,500 in the North America. I believe the numbers are about 5,500-6,000.
ITschak On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 7:52 PM, Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 03:51:24AM -0500, Dejan Stamatovic wrote: > > Just for the sake of anybody’s interest. > > > > There in Serbia (a small European market) we have: > > > > 4 z/OS installations > > > > 1 VSE installations > > > > Do not know whether this proves anybody's point but there it is! > > So, quick BOTEC (or rather, back of Lisp interpreter which is my desk > calculator of choice), assuming 7 bln total population and 7.111mln > for Serbia (from Wikipedia): > > 5]> (/ 7000000000 (/ 7111024 4l0)) > 3937.548234965878332L0 > > [6]> (/ 7000000000 (/ 7111024 1l0)) > 984.387058741469583L0 > > This gives about 4k z/OS and 1k VSE worldwide. Quite in agreement with > estimation given few posts earlier by Phil Smith, if I recall > correctly. However, I do not claim that my method is worth anything. > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
