[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>Fujitsu is leaving the mainframe market.
>
>But they are not selling their mainframe business - they are shutting
>it down.
>
>You can conclude something about the mainframe market from that. Fujitsu
>does not see a way to make a profit in the future and potential buyers
>do not see it either.

Fujitsu is really an IBM clone maker, just like NAS and Amdahl.  They have
some cool features and an fancy OS/360 clone, but there is no massive
impediment to their users moving to IBM hardware if they can't move to the
Fujitsu X86 stuff (for I/O performance reasons, etc).

>>                         Â  The only two large players in the mainframe
>> world are IBM and Unisys and Unisys only has a fraction of that
>> market.  IBM is not going away any time soon.
>
>IBM is doing fine. They have a huge consultancy business and
>a big software business and a medium cloud business.

And SOON they will have all of Fujitsu's customers.  It's nice work if you
can get it.
--scott

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