OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19958/IBM_Tightens_Stranglehold_Over_Mainframe_Market Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:33 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Eeek, the boss is in! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321104 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321104 Hey boss, you forgot to include a link to your story!!! Being as I can't RTFM I'll, of course, comment on it anyway! We won't let that stop us!

I think IBM has great staff, but slow management. They still tend to use their market locks and big bags of money when they can't get their products out and people buying. I'm an iSeries administrator and their keeping up with the market forces on that platform is painfully slow, we JUST got PHP and MySQL "blessed" by the big blue gods like it was some kind of gift, but they just lock it up and know companies will buy their 5 year old crap because they have to. They're just now marketing things the system was capable of 5 years ago.. way to sell a platform guys!

If you can't compete, buy your way out! BushCo is still in office, might as well get these acquisitions thru while they're being rubber-stamped! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mabhatter) Comments RE: Eeek, the boss is in! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321118 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321118 I suppose you want to ignore the fact, well documented in the various court filings, that PSI had in its possession IBM restricted documentation, illegally transferred to PSI during their acquisition of the old Amdahl holdings.

IBM was lawfully protecting their intellectual property.

The acquisition of PSI is nothing more than a matter of cost savings vs. a protracted legal fight, which PSI had no chance of winning. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbaker314) Comments Uh http://www.osnews.com/thread?321196 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321196
IBM has just announced it is Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), its small but most significant competitor.


I'm guessing there's an "acquired" missing in that sentence but I cant really tell since there's no link to the original article.

PSI is/was a small mainframe manufacturer that had sued IBM over the same anticompetitive practices in Europe and New York.


Same? as what? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments No impact on our mainframes. :-) http://www.osnews.com/thread?321220 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321220 Then again, the Unisys Clearpath stuff that we use isn't "IBM compatible" by any stretch of the imagination.

Besides, it isn't like "consumers" are in the mainframe market. :-) Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments RE: No impact on our mainframes. :-) http://www.osnews.com/thread?321296 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321296
Then again, the Unisys Clearpath stuff that we use isn't "IBM compatible" by any stretch of the imagination.

Besides, it isn't like "consumers" are in the mainframe market. :-)


Wow, do you guys run the Burroughs system (MCP), or the Univac one? What are the apps? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jwwf) Comments It explains why mainframes are so expensive http://www.osnews.com/thread?321339 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321339 If only there was more competition we could all afford some monster machine the size of a house to run our Cobol banking apps and play chess with. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alban) Comments