Mainframe No Monopoly, Silly! Says IBM

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Trashing the recently released report sponsored by Openmainframe.org, Big Blue says that systems based on Wintel and other distributed platforms actually dominate the market, pose a threat to the mainframe segment.

As we reported earlier, the The Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in its study on The Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India had claimed that IBM mainframe posed a threat to the inclusive growth of the IT in India. Professor Rajat Kathuria, who had spearheaded the study, sponsored by Openmainframe.org had said that the proprietary nature of IBM\'s systems and closed standards posed a threat to interoperability of systems. He even went on to explain that this proprietary nature of the operating systems running the IBM mainframes also meant that the clients have to cede some power over data to the company, which can pose a big business threat.


Reiterating this, Kathuria said to IT VAR News, We have shown what reality is and Industry demands unbundling of software and underlining hardware. We know IBM will not take this initiative so we proceeding through election commission of India. We want to create aw

areness among consumers.


But this has raised the heckled of IBM, which owns the lion\'s share of the server infrastructure market - about 50 percent. The company has hit back and called the report silly and without basis. The company statement said IBM servers face vigorous competition. In fact, only a decade ago, the IBM mainframe was on the verge of extinction because of competition from Wintel and other distributed platforms that still heavily dominate the market. But by investing billions of dollars in research and development, IBM improved the mainframe platform and enhanced its competitiveness.


In fact the company spokesperson actually came out and accused the report to be a paid for study by its competitors. The person said,\"The research agency is not independent source. It is incredible. Openmainframe.org is bought and paid for by Microsoft and other IBM competitors, so its hardly surprising that it would be making an anti-IBM argument. This r