UX, AIX, FLAYX...

[Liam Proven]

On 06/09/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
> >> It depends on how you define the market for a mainframe.  It's not the
> >> same market as for a Windows PC, and it never was.
> >
> > Well, we could compare installs, or we could compare users. It's up to
> > you. Either way, I'll warrant that its market share now is
> > infinitisemal compared to what it once what.
>
> The problem is that "users" is a somewhat nebulous concept when it comes
> to mainframes, and "seats" is a completely meaningless measure when it
> comes to mainframes.  The average non-computer-using American probably
> accesses a mainframe at least a dozen times a week.  More if you use a
> computer.
>
> It's not that there's a lot of mainframes out there, it's that they're
> quite pervasive.

All right, conceded.

But I suspect that there is a user count involved somewhere for
licensing purposes!

Re your point about accessing a mainframe - that would generally be
very indirectly, though, no? They access a web server or an ATM or
something, that probably talks to another server, that talks to a
mainframe.

Most of the tedious IT management press that I read seems to consider
the client/server model obsolete now and talks of at least 3-layer
models instead.


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