[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-05-21 kl. 02:58, skrev 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
> 

No, I do not think it is growing long term. Maybe if you measure
raw performance. Doesn't matter, my point was only that, when thing
varies that much from year to year, you get very differnt result
depending on what range you select. And that can be used (not saying
that you did) to prove a point in any direction.