On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 4:35:15 AM UTC-8, Hans Jürgen> It seems to be a well hidden secret how many mainframe sites are still arround, especially those that run Unisys MCP or OS/2200 mainframes.to survey mcp customers and report back. We had an all hands to hear the report which was surprising because it was pretty downbeat. As I remember, we had less than 100 spending 5-10 mill per year, and another 100 mostly smaller customers. It was
This is an old thread which I just stumbled on but made me laugh. I think it was 2006 or 2007 when someone at unisys was asking the same question. This was just before I got redundant. Anyway, a guy in my group, can't remember his name, was supposed
Mgmt would never tell us who we were working on software for. The only way you could tell the number of users was by the bug reports. But for sure, most projects had 0 customers. I worked there for a couple of decades and I can't remember anyproject except maybe 1 or 2 that ever had any customers. My guess was that they developed these projects and then bundled them in the build to make it look like we were relevant. Microsoft, apple, they do it too. But, as the revenue dropped,
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