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Mainframes still selling wellMainframes still selling wellPosted May 13, 2008 16:37 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: BY 1990 mainfarmes were dying by khim Parent article: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)
No joke. IBM's mainframes continue to sell well. Consider that mainframes have been used for virtualization for forty years, and companies nowadays often use a mainframe to run hundreds of virtual hosts. IBM did attempt to slowly withdraw from the mainframe market, but then a lot of companies using them for traditional purposes (i.e., non-virtualized hosts) started clamoring for upgrades and new models. Apparently these businesses have a "it ain't broke, so no need to fix it" attitude towards their IT needs.
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