The leading cloud companies are about to reach escape velocity, IBM is mortgaging its future at the RHT junk yard on sc-aps to rebuild Apollos.
I can see why IBM thinks RHT is the right medicine for itself and the cloud. But it demonstrates that IBM leadership continues to be stuck in the past, clueless about the cloud business it is in, the direction it is going, and the velocity of innovation. IBM is Apple post-Jobs.
Failure to invest in the future, its people, and innovations that truely matter, saddled by a string of CEOs who prioritize financial engineering over its own demise, the Peter Principle thrives at the leadership level. Ginny just isn't all that into you.
IBM was rejected by the once cigar-butt investor - It's beyond ugly, the free puff is gone. Time to move on.
RHT became part of IBM today, in a few years RHT will be part of HCL, racking up more RAs on its way to ignominy.