Responding to OpenMainframe-sponsored ICRIER-Indicus report on The Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India, IBM has said that the report lacks credibility and organization that has prepared the report is a front group for many of IBM's competitors.

Openmainframe.org is bought and paid for by Microsoft and other IBM competitors, so it's hardly surprising that it would be making an anti-IBM argument.

IBM terms the allegation of 'monopoly' as silly. IBM servers face vigorous competition. IBM's System z servers constitute less than 10% of all server revenue and 0.03% of total server shipments.

In fact, only a decade ago, the IBM mainframe was on the verge of extinction because of competition from Wintel and other distributed platforms that still heavily dominate the market today. But by investing billions of dollars in research and development, IBM improved the mainframe platform and enhanced its competitiveness.

Even while doing so, IBM regularly has lowered the prices paid by clients for doing work on the mainframe. As a result, IBM's clients have benefited from innovation on the platform, and an alternative to Unix and Windows has been preserved. Continuous quality improvements and reduced prices are not what one would expect from a so-called monopoly."

According to the ICRIER-Indicus report, India's high-end computer market is dominated by IBM (with 50% market share), HP (33%) and Sun (17%).