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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/28/22 15:08, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?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 

That was pretty much what I meant when I said advantage IBM.  :-)

>                                                  if they can't move to the
> Fujitsu X86 stuff (for I/O performance reasons, etc).

I am not aware of any I/O performance issues with zSystems.

> 
>>>                            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.

Exactly.

bill