> IBM makes mainframes that sit in someone's bank and last decades. They make tools that you buy and install and run your entire business with. You're kinda ri

> IBM makes mainframes that sit in someone's bank and last decades. They make tools that you buy and install and run your entire business with. You're kinda right but the tech world is changing. My experience 1) First job had an expensive IBM powerpc based AIX box. We now have cheap x86 with free Linux. 2) 10 years ago my project had an expensive DB2 database. Current job has a lot of files and open source noSQL applications. (some Oracle is still around but we hate it) 3) My current job is first to use cloud hosts. No need for mainframes any more. 4) I used to have IBM HDD, but they no longer make anything like that