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That's not because mainframes are priced attractively. It's because VMware is now spectacularly overpriced.
PC clusters have all but killed mainframes because for the vast majority of tasks they make more sense in every way. It's only a very few jobs that make more sense on a mainframe today, when clustering is mature.
We already knew BCM is largely crap, so this ain't news. It's just a ham handed ad.