zEnterprise EC12 Mainframe: Still The Big Iron
September 4, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Power Systems had better thank their lucky stars that IBM is still investing in mainframes and can still rake in billions of dollars–my guess is around $15 billion over a two-year cycle–selling mainframe hardware and systems software. Because if IBM did not throw off most of that as profits, there would not be an IBM fab and there would not be a Power Systems biz at all. IBM would have long since ditched the server hardware business to focus on software and services. To a very large extent, the System z product line not only keeps the rest of Big |
