The $5 Trillion lock in
Someone’s just mentioned to me that IBM is claiming there are $5 Trillion worth of applications on the mainframe:
Many enterprises, such as yours, may have millions of dollars worth of mainframe assets and core business applications that support the heart of the business. In fact, its estimated that some $5 trillion worth of applications — i.e. business assets — reside on today’s IBM mainframe systems.
That’s not the only place IBM mention $5 Trillion. IBM’s CFO, Mark Loughridge mentioned the same figure to the New York Times in April, citing it as the total figure for all the world’s announced economic stimulus packages.
The market that is delivering the strongest growth is the public sector, I.B.M. said, with signings up 50 percent worldwide, as the $5 trillion in announced economic stimulus programs across the globe begin to create rising demand for technology and other goods, Mr. Loughridge said.
So, according to IBM, it seems the value of their Mainframe Lock In = The sum of Economic stimulus packages