Six Companies Remain in the Mainframe Industry: IBM, Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi, Atos, and Unisys
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Summary
The article discusses the current state of the mainframe industry, identifying six remaining companies: Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Atos (formerly Bull), Unisys, and IBM. It notes that only three (Fujitsu, NEC, and IBM) still develop their own CPUs, with Fujitsu likely to stop after one more generation. The piece provides speculation about where each company's mainframes are used, with IBM having the largest global presence with 3,000-7,000 Z customers, many on very large systems.
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· 3 pulledThere are six companies remaining in the mainframe industry - Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Atos (formerly Bull), Unisys, and IBM.
Three of those - Fujitsu, NEC, and IBM - still develop their own CPUs, though Fujitsu is likely to do so for only one more generation.
IBM is global and has, as best I can tell, between 3000 and 7000 Z customers. Many of these are on very large systems; IBM scales to far higher pe
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