It seems IBMs business model is to make the customer pay more with time until they give up and leap from their (legacy) platform, at which point they migrate to

It seems IBMs business model is to make the customer pay more with time until they give up and leap from their (legacy) platform, at which point they migrate to something ground breaking like... DB2 on x86 (of course it would have been cheaper to migrate things 10 yr. ago but the oxygen restriction caused by neckties usually prevents some kinds of foresight)