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by rbanffy 711 days ago
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?