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自从S/360大型机在1964年投入商用开始,40年过去了,IBM依然通过大型机从市场中获益,大型机将死的预言不攻自破。去年,IBM销售了2700台大型机,收入43亿美元。再往前一年,2002年的数字是2300台和40亿美元,这与业界预测的大型机市场利润逐年下降的趋势正好相反。IBM的大型机硬件销售收入只占该公司总收入的5%,但是如果算上相关的服务收入等,这个数字就会达到25%,而大型机的纯利润更是高达45%。为了保持大型机的市场活力,IBM也开始调整大型机的产品线,增加自己的竞争力,更好地同高端Unix和Intel服务器竞争。另外,在大型机上运行Java环境的处理器模块,Linux在2000年开始支持大型机等等消息,都是大型机持续焕发活力的最好例证。
Since the S / 360 mainframe was first introduced commercially in 1964, 40 years have passed and IBM is still benefiting from the mainframe, with predictions that the mainframe will die. Last year, IBM sold 2,700 mainframes with $ 4.3 billion in revenue. A year earlier, the figure for 2002 was 2,300 units and 4 billion USD, which is exactly the opposite of the industry’s forecast that the profit of the mainframe market declines year by year. IBM’s mainframe hardware sales account for only 5% of the company’s total revenue, but if you count the relevant service revenue, etc., this figure will reach 25%, while the mainframe is even up to 45% net profit. In order to maintain the vitality of the mainframe, IBM also began to adjust the mainframe product line to increase their competitiveness and better compete with the high-end Unix and Intel servers. In addition, processors running Java environments on mainframes, Linux starting to host mainframes in 2000, and more are all examples of how the mainframe continues to rejuvenate.