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It’s not a technical problem. IBM and whomever owns other “undead” platforms aren’t dumb, they price the stuff high enough to print money, but low enough to make it a poor return to migrate.

In a big enterprise, the mainframes give CIOs leverage for other stuff too - they sell at high margin and IBM will “give away” or subsidize other services by moving money around in the backend.



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