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(Old) Europe to Investigate Antitrust Complaints Over I.B.M. Mainframes

1 pointsby iamsalmanabout 11 years ago

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iamsalmanabout 11 years ago
According to one article on a credible blog, 80% of government and bank data is still stored in IBM DB2 and served through banking and and business apps written in COBOL and running on IBM Mainframes.<p>If this is true, can we safely assume that there&#x27;s a huge huge market potential for disruption into a potentially $12BB a year market which includes both servers and business apps (banking, government social welfare apps, government critical citizen data apps)?<p>This hardly ever appears on tech media. Even if this is not true, IBM&#x27;s financial figures would reveal how much it earns from it&#x27;s Mainframe lines of hardware and software business.