Your customers are many years behind the times then, which isn't unusual if you're doing consulting. Windows Server only does well in the consulting bubble and

Your customers are many years behind the times then, which isn't unusual if you're doing consulting. Windows Server only does well in the consulting bubble and in backwards industries like finance, it's basically dead everywhere else. Containers are hardly a buzzword, I would say more than half the fortune 500 run their systems exclusively in containers and that's only increasing. The last two companies I worked at were 100% containers for pretty huge fleets of machines. I don't know of a single large tech companies that isn't exclusively containers or at least KVM virtualized machines. Mainframes are so past dead that they've resorted to haunting us. Mainframes (and SQL server and Oracle Db) are so behind that they make it illegal to benchmark their systems in license agreements. From the leaked benchmarks I've seen, a power mainframe CPU is maybe 10x slower than a single X86 core from Intel or AMD. Oracle Db is also about an order of magnitude slower than Postgres and MySQL which you can get for free. I'm not trying to be a dick, just convince you that based on your beliefs it is you that is in a bubble :) . In fact the same bubble I used to be in (used to do consulting and shared a lot of the same opinions until I moved to different parts of the industry). That's fine if you still making $, but it's something to be aware of if you're looking around for other opportunities in different areas of the space