IBM Mainframe Threat to India Says Report

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The Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), along with Indicus Analytics, released a report on The Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India.

The Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), along with Indicus Analytics, released a report on The Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India.

Sponsored by OpenMainframe, a forum comprising industry and IT representatives, and other stakeholders promoting fair competition in the mainframe industry, the report is based on a survey conducted among infrastructure verticals, including financial services, process manufacturing, retail trade, services (telecommunications), transportation, utilities and wholesale trade.

The report calls for lending serious thought to issues of free and fair competition, entry of new innovators in this space, international or Indian, deterrence to bundling of IT goods and services, ensuring universal inter-operability between different IT systems, including high-end computers.

At the release, eminent economists, including Dr Rajiv Kumar, Director and

Chief Executive, ICRIER; Dr Laveesh Bhandari, Director, Indicus Analytics Pvt Ltd; Mr S.L. Rao, Chairman, Institute for Social and Economic Change; Jeff Gould, Editor,OpenMainframe.org and CEO, Peerstone Research, Professor Bibek Debroy, Senior Economist; Dr Mahesh Uppal, Director of Com First (India) Private Ltd and ICRIER Professor Rajat Kathuria, deliberated on the need for a level-playing field in the mainframe and high-end computing market.

Given the need for inclusive growth in India in the last few years, social sector programmes have seen a dramatic increase in scale and scope targeted towards the underprivileged it is imperative that the public and private sector build a large-scale IT back end, especially high-end servers, including mainframes. For this, it is vital that there is free and fair competition in the mainframe sphere in the country.

Indias high-end computer market is dominated by IBM (with 50% market share), HP (33%) and S