Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges
VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.
Speaking to The Register to discuss the analyst firm’s mid-April publication, “The State of the IBM Mainframe in 2026,” Galimberti said some buyers in many fields are comparing mainframes to modern environments and deciding Big Blue’s big iron comes out ahead.
“I can build a multi-region cloud application, but things like data synchronization and high availability are things I need to build into application logic,” he said. “The mainframe has that in the platform, which shields developers from complexity.”
He also thinks mainframes are ideally suited to workloads that need many years of transactional…
