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Which ones do they make more on? The stuff that's actually plugged in cranking cycles? Or new sales? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 4:06 PM Subject: 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. > > > > > > > > > > +--- > > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > > +--- > > > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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