CIOs All Agree: Mainframes Are More Strategic Than Themselves
Alan Radding over at MainframeZone.com neatly destroys a recent Micro Focus-sponsored Standish Group marketing brochure survey of select CIOs. Several people posting comments to Alan's article also make good points.
I'd like to make one more point. According to CIO Magazine, the average tenure of a CIO barely exceeds four years. A supermajority (70%) of Standish Group-selected CIOs agreed that their mainframes are strategic. But, when asked to look forward 5 to 10 years, they at least weren't sure. Ergo, all of The Standish Group-selected CIOs agree: their mainframes are more strategic, on average, than themselves — and the mainframes will undoubtedly serve their employers much, much longer.
| by Timothy Sipples | September 21, 2011 in Analysts, Media Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0) |
Myth versus Truth
IBM has introduced some new "myth versus truth" advertising to promote System z. IBM realized there are many misperceptions about the modern mainframe, the most advanced and sophisticated business server in the market. (Certainly IBM's competitors try to exploit those misperceptions.) IBM employs a bit of humor, and I think it works well. First up, System z as a vending machine:
Here is a television spot from Italy:
Don't understand Italian? OK, let's try again:
| by Timothy Sipples | September 11, 2009 in Media Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0) |
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