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It is Game Over if AWS starts hosting IBM mainframe DB2. Most customers would happily pay a 10% premium.

In the CAP theorem context if you need CA you can't beat an IBM mainframe. IBM can also co-locate nodes of it's latest Power9/GPU supercomputer racks.

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What’s in it for IBM? Mainframe hosting (e.g. being a 1970s style computer bureau) is the only possible competitive advantage they have in cloud.

You can already migrate away from your mainframe and take all those JCLs, PL1 Stored Procs and other oddities into a quite standard linux box.

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