[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Dave Froble]

On 5/19/2018 3:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/15/2018 11:38 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 6:46:17 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> And z sales are not that big and there is no reason to expect major
>>> growth.
>
>> One Z-box moves in and 200,000+ x86 servers move out yet you count
>> both in eaches.
>
> IBM does not publish mainframe sales in dollars.
>
> But they do publish percentage change since last year.
>
> 2013    -13.4
> 2014    -23.3
> 2015    +28.1
> 2016    -21.8
> 2017    +24.0
>
> Not exactly growth (over 5 year it is -17.5%).
>
> Amount wise they do state that in 2017 total systems hardware
> sale which includes mainframe, Power and storage was 8.2 B$.
>
> Which is not bad at all. But also rather obvious that
> mainframe is not taking over the world from x86-64.
>
> Arne

I know nothing, but, I'd bet that IBM is making lots of support and 
other revenue from the "mainframes" in use.  HW sales isn't everything.