[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/20/2018 5:29 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm 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.
>>>
> 
> 2015    +28.1
> 2016    -21.8
> 2017    +24.0
> 
> So a 24% growth over the last 3 years. Any company would
> say that is pretty good for this volume.
> 
> Now, what was it that Mark Twain said about statistics? :-)
> 

It fluctuates a bit (with release of new generations of servers).

But if you look at the long term then there is no growth.

Let me increase from 5 to 12 years.

2006     +7.8
2007    -11.2
2008    +12.5
2009    -28.7
2010    +16.4
2011     +0.3
2012     +5.4
2013    -13.4
2014    -23.3
2015    +28.1
2016    -21.8
2017    +24.0

I don't think that is a statistical trick.

Arne