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SPSS, MIPS pricing and SAS: Big Data on z
Timothy Sipples already mentioned IBM is acquiring SPSS. While there is a lot of analysis out there about the deal generally, I haven't seen much about the mainframe market implications. Except on my own blog. I figure the argument is worth repeating here.disclosure: ibm's mainframe group is a customer.
IBM has done a lot of really solid work making the mainframe less expensive for non-CICS and IMS workloads like Linux (IFL), DB2 (zIP) or WebSphere (zAAP). IBM is determined to drive datawarehousing workloads to the mainframe. But SAS Institute was a “stick in the mud”, effectively forcing users to pay capacity-based mainframe charges, and so making it less likely customers would run Big Data analytics on z. Well now IBM is in a great position to offer specialist offload processors for data analytics workloads, but also push SAS Institute into a price war that can only benefit customers interested in mainframe consolidation- and don’t think that’s an isolated group. What was the first thing SAS claimed about the acquisition? It would force up prices. Good luck with that… One other thing IBM mainframe customers will be able to do- analyse all of their CICS transactions for patterns.
| by James Governor | July 31, 2009 Permalink |
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I agree with at least much of what you've written, James.
After IBM acquired Cognos, the first action IBM took was to bring Cognos 8 BI products to System z. Cognos was never available for System z. But SPSS started life on z/OS (well, MVS). In fact, there are some organizations still running SPSS on System z. I've used it before (and SAS).
I don't know what IBM's plans are here. However, assuming IBM completes its acquisition, would you bet against SPSS showing up on System z, and reasonably quickly? I wouldn't. So I would advise customers to ask IBM about what they're thinking re: SPSS for z/OS. Presumably IBM could pull the product off SPSS's shelf, dust it off a little, and give it a new IBM part number to have something available in 2009.
I also have this pet idea that IBM should release Lotus 1-2-3/M as a free "as-is" download. Why not? It's chock full of callable math routines that anyone with a spreadsheet background would understand, which is almost everyone.
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