https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/21/the-next-ibm-platform-revisited/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:20:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/21/the-next-ibm-platform-revisited/#comment-142458 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:27:44 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=136331#comment-142458 Wasnt this supposed to be a platform related article than a financial analyst. Since at least the last 10 years or so people have been writing about what appears to be now a black swan event of IBM returning to its glory days. Despite gluing all type of open source and other technologically advanced stuff, IBM has struggled and will continue to struggle. Unlike its services peers, IBM has ZERO investments in services and they will further decline given the new CEO may not want the service baggage. Most of its customers want to stay away from IBM products across hardware and software unless they are locked in. Glorified CEO talks do not align with on the ground reality of how IBM sales team engage in a frustrating and threatening model with their clients. I don’t see any hope for IBM, except the fact CIOs and others who do not want to be held at ransom to arrogant public cloud vendor, may use IBM for some more years. Therefore, the IBM death will be very slow, but it will happen in the next ten years. Everything is not a Mainframe.

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