I find it sad that IBM didn’t view ThinkPad as a core business and chose to sell it instead. They made some of the best laptops at the time.

Margins on consumer PC hardware are quite low, and were really low through the late 90s. There was no point being in that market for them, and they made a pivot to switch to only two markets: services (IBM Global Services is huge still) and mainframe customers (which I gather they must still make a lot of money on, and the hardware is actually quite interesting and well-engineered, just stupid expensive).

I'm surprised Db2 still exists as a product they actively develop, to be honest. Maybe because their services branch and mainframe customers still use it heavily.