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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

> Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:
[...]

>> [...] remember that includes softwre revenue, which has higher
>> margins than hardware revenue.  I believe I saw somewhere that IBM
>> made more from MVS, DB2, CICS, etc.
>
> SAP S4/HANA is going to hurt their bottom line, then.  Earlier
> versions of SAP could, I understand, run on zOS and DB2, S4/HANA
> requires SAP's in-house database and requires Linux.
>
>> than they do on the hardware itself.  So
>> one could argue that they have to develop mew hardware in order to
>> protect their software revenue!
>
> Sounds reasonable, and the reverse of what they did in the
> (far-away) past.

IBM was forced to change what it did in the past as a 
consequence of an antitrust action filed by the US
government.  And in fact there was more than one of
those.