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They support their AS400 line. No one else in the market. This plus some companies they bought (e.g. redhat) is all that IBM is left as today.


They have their mainframes, too. Not a big market, but highly lucrative, AFAIK. I read something about the mainframe division contributing 10% of their revenue but 25% of their profits.


They have a 1.8% market share in cloud, to be fair

(probably about 99.5% of which is their own usage internally)


It's kind of strange, though, they're not doing better in that department. I remember they launched a cloud-like offering around 2005, hosting customers' applications in multiple globally distributed data centers, with full redundancy, load balancing, etc. I suppose the world wasn't ready for that back then.




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