IBM announced its financial results for the 4th quarter of 2006 late last week. Digging into the earnings announcement a bit, IBM revealed that System z was a bright spot, performing extremely well. Yet again. (Dear industry analysts: when you see these sorts of results for years running, could you all please acknowledge that mainframes are growing in popularity? They're the most sophisticated and capable general purpose business computers, and they run just about any software you care to name, so it makes sense.)
In my own little part of the world we saw two brand new mainframe customers sign with IBM, one of them in a brand new industry for System z. Although mainframe Linux is especially popular among new mainframe customers, it's worth noting that both these new customers will run z/OS. (No, z/OS is not too difficult. Let's drop that canard.) It's very exciting and gratifying when my colleagues experience these successes. And if I can help, great.
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