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Only around 4% of the firm's revenues come from mainframe sales.
While mainframe sales were up 25percentt, one line of servers saw an 82percentt plunge.
I.B.M.'s mainframe sales, however, are projected to be $3.3 billion in 2010 and represent about three-quarters of the overall mainframe market of $4.5 billion.
Sales were just below analysts' estimates, weighed down by a slowdown in mainframe sales, compared with the previous year when new models were introduced.
But mainframe sales surged 56 percent thanks to a new line of mainframe computers, the zEnterprise EC12, which began shipping in September.
Mainframe sales benefited from the trend among corporate customers to consolidate their data centers onto fewer, larger machines to save money.
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For example, Peter Goldmacher, who follows business-software vendors like BMC and Computer Associates for Merrill Lynch, focused on I.B.M.'s report that mainframe computer sales as measured by raw computing power shipped had grown 4percentt.
If John J. Moores is out to embarrass BMC Software, the $1.6 billion (sales) mainframe applications firm he founded in 1980, it's with a strong motive.
The company's PC business, Mr. Bittman said, was declining faster than expected and its sales of mainframe computers continued to erode.
Sales of mainframe computers account for less than 10 percent of the worldwide market for data center computers, estimated to be $49 billion this year, according to the International Data Corporation, a research firm in Framingham, Mass.
It is to pay $3 billion for Tandem Computers, in large part to get the mainframe maker's 4,000-strong 4,000-strongand high-margin corporate cusalesrs.Oracle, the world's second-largest soforcee compand, finally delivered the product at the heart of its network-corporatestrategy.
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