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Because it's getting cheaper to keep the platform alive. The hardware is now shared; the last step is to finish ripping out the IPO/IOA architecture. Once done, an AS/400 or iSeries can truly just be a pSeries running i5/OS. AIX isn't going away anytime soon, so neither will the hardware. As an iSeries fan, it's painful to say it may devolve into a pSeries running a guest OS, but the heart of the 400 has always been the OS. What's left is software & support. Even just milking the installed based for upgrades should be a profitable venture for years to come. Look at what JDE did with World. Major development essentially stopped a long time ago and yet Oracle is still committed to suck up license revenue, um, support the app, for another 8 years. Even if future enhancements only serve to tread water from a technology standpoint, the i5/OS platform will exist in one way or another for many years to come.
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