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I cannot help but think products like DB2 and AS/400 (i Series/IBM i) are intentionally not promoted by IBM - they concentrate all marketing resources onto the next hype and view these reliable workhorses as a burden.

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I am certainly concerned there is little to no on-ramp for new projects on AIX, IBMi and mainframes - there is no entry level machine and, while there are cloud offerings, they are very expensive compared to Linux on ARM or x86.

If anything, IBM Cloud should be used as an onboarding tool for their most profitable platforms.

And, if not even IBM can run your workloads on any of these platforms cost-effectively, why should you invest in their hardware and software stacks?

>burden

or pure profit center?

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