With a 45% market share in the UNIX market, which continues to grow, the future of IBM POWER and i/OS is assured. With approximately 150,000 clients worldwide, in Dec 2010 the number of systems increased. For Unix, the recent Oracle announcement regarding Itanium will only have further positive effect on POWER sales.
Revenues from IBM Systems and Technology Group’s software brands continue to grow as PowerVM and PowerHA increase sales but the most important factor is that i/OS accounts for a significant portion of these revenues, an amount IBM could not afford to lose.
In addition, IBM acknowledge that the release of V7R1 so soon after V6R1, an OS level that the majority of users are likely to bypass, has not gone down well with clients – with so many still on V5R4. The likelihood is that rather than the current regularity of new versions being released there will be a number of new intermediate releases. So expect to see, for example, a V7R2 and so on.
To understand the complexity of which systems support which i/OS level, please review the web site below:
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/osmapping.html
For more information on the IBM POWER range, for i/OS or AIX, please contact an Applied Technologies POWER specialist.
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