[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/19/2018 8:35 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

I am sure that they make a lot of money on additional stuff.

HW maintenance, SW sales, SW maintenance, development outsourcing,
operations outsourcing etc..

My point is just that mainframe is not a growth market and
not a replacement technology for x86-64.

Arne