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Unisys Mainframes: Sustainable Business for the Decade

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Overview Mainframe products enjoy high margins because the costs of technology have eroded far faster than the market prices still commanded for these systems. Proprietary systems, those that have a substantial content that is specific to that product line, instill certain inertia in their customer base because of the relatively high cost of switching. Thus, mainframes and other high-end proprietary systems are good contributors to the financial results for their makers. Unisys, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Bull, Hitachi for VOS3 and NEC all sustain their mainframe systems, despite low or even negative growth in market share and revenue, because of those high margins. In this report, Gartner reviews the state of the Unisys ClearPath series, and has noted that Unisys intends to continue investing in and enhancing this product line at least until the end of the decade.

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Publisher	Gartner	File Format	HTML
Date Published	March 2003	Downloads	12
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes

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