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To: Tony Viola who wrote (70343)	12/30/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony,>>>OFF TOPIC, S390. For whatever reason, the latest IBM one, the G5, is the fastest sales ramping mainframe in history, according to IBM. And it is RAS. 10 - 20 years MTBF now with CMOS. <<< What are talking about here (10 - 20 years MTBF)? Is that hardware, OS, applications software, DBMS, (CICS) whatever? Mary

To: Tony Viola who wrote (70343)	12/30/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

One other reason may be that the latest generation has caught the old Bipolar mainframes in performance per engine. The performance issue was one reason why Hitachi had some sales success with it's hybrid 'Skyline' series of mainframes over the past few years. Although CMOS machines can be a part of the 'parallel sysplex', some large customers wanted more MIPS per engine than they could supply initially, and went with the Skyline machine.... Regards, John