> as an old OS/2 fan and former IT executive that had to deal with large strategic outsourcing deals: IBM is not a trustworthy vendor
Amen. IBM doesn't believe their customers are "developers" or "sysadmins"; they believe their customers are C-levels who will always come back. They miss the point that C-levels rotate out as previous devs and sysops rise up. That's how they lost the mainframe market, and the desktop market, and now the minicomputer market that they clawed back with RHEL. The cloud they already lost.
Amen. IBM doesn't believe their customers are "developers" or "sysadmins"; they believe their customers are C-levels who will always come back. They miss the point that C-levels rotate out as previous devs and sysops rise up. That's how they lost the mainframe market, and the desktop market, and now the minicomputer market that they clawed back with RHEL. The cloud they already lost.