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I was once a Db2 engineer on the mainframe for decades. A little bit emo when I saw "mainframe" here.

It's hard to say if the success of "mainframe" before has become the reason why IBM has been falling behind in the cloud competition.

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When I was a mainframe engineer at IBM, I heard more than once that IBM would never fall behind because we had a whole pipeline of incredible machines in development, and they could just be brought forward if there was ever a really serious competitive threat.

And you believed it?

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