Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scale to the Enterprise

Re:Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scal... by tjakab on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:24AM (#10010419)

Mainframes. If you're a bank or an enterprise of a certain size, then a chunk of your annual IT budget goes right to IBM for mainframe maintenance and licensing every year.

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Re:Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scal... by aus_ on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:58AM (#10010699)

In 2012, The Economist reported that mainframes accounted for about a quarter of IBM's revenue and about half of its profits. [0] [1]

IT budgets for large banks and financial firms usually dedicate something like 20% their budget to mainframes, but it usually accounts for about 80% of the firm's workload/processing.

[0]: http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/09/ibms-mainf... [1]: http://blog.nullspace.io/mainframes.html

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Re:Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scal... by zhte415 on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:39AM (#10010551)

Absolutely. I was at a local university, in April, where IBM had donated a mainframe. While the university wasn't sure what to do with it, it was spectacularly iconic, sitting in its own glass walled 200m2 room.

After a while, it had the effect of making students getting interested in banking and transaction orientated software engineering, completing the cycle, joining internship programs and maintaining the mainframe paradigm for the next couple of generations.

Wouldn't you? A massive mainframe you can play on as a student, no need for a VM, just log right in!

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