Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Which itself is biasing the number, since some major mainframe hardware and software vendors nowadays derive a preponderance of their "total earnings" from non-"mainframe hardware and software" lines of business.
From what I know, just the opposite is true. Mainframe revenues at large ISVs subsidize their entire business -- including massive expenditures developing products for non-mainframe platforms.
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