At the IBM Lotusphere conference on Monday in Orlando, IBM Collaboration Solutions General Manager Alistair Rennie described major shifts in how technology has transformed business over the decades: the Mainframe, Departmental computing, the PC, and the Internet.
The company known for its mainframe and other complex computing software said that bookings fell 1% (4% on constant-currency basis) partially due to weaker results in internet security business.
This new dimension in enterprise computing-- extending mainframe governance to POWER7 and System x blades integrated into the zEnterprise System architecture--was developed over the past three years with direct involvement from a team of IBM's 30 top customers, which provided direct input at every stage of the development process.
IBM's Adkins responds with the company's usual argument against those antitrust attacks: That because mainframes now compete with x86 and Unix servers sold by many vendors, IBM's mainframe monopoly is really only a small slice of a much larger enterprise computing industry.