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IBM's proprietary nightmares have, historically, often been quite cost effective. AS/400 did eventually get too long in the tooth, but it had an amazing run for

IBM's proprietary nightmares have, historically, often been quite cost effective. AS/400 did eventually get too long in the tooth, but it had an amazing run for decades where it was extremely competitive for TCO.

gtirloni 3y ago
Historically sums it up.
rbanffy 3y ago
AS/400 is alive and well. It's now called IBMi and runs on POWER hardware.
- cbsmith 3y ago
  Yeah, but they aren't so dominant on the TCO side as they once were.