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They've been doing this for over 20 years (which is why Olivetti/Hitachi and the others no longer manufacture mainframes), but apparently our politicians were too busy frying other fishes....
If you had an Hitachi, in the late '80s the cost for a MVS licence was about 8 times higher than if you owned an 390.... Same applied to all IBM stuff.
Ours is surely a niche market, but boy! The amount of money circulating in this niche is huge..... (and if you know CoBOL or s/390 ASM your job is recession proof!)