https://www.networkworld.com/article/3576290/still-not-dead-the-mainframe-hangs-on-sustained-by-linux-and-hybrid-cloud.html
Any opinion?
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Just like brick and mortar. Some companies have moved on, IBM refuses to adapt.
"Just Like Film and Film Camera hung on for years while rest of world was moving to digital.
Look how that worked out for Kodak."
Perfect example. And film still exists today and will for a long time. But no one is building a business around it.
Just Like Film and Film Camera hung on for years while rest of world was moving to digital.
Look how that worked out for Kodak. IBM has already missed the Big opportunity they had. Now the business model will be cutting resources and selling off part of company to keep Execs and stock holders in money until the company is delisted and just a memory.
Current employees should take what they can and do nothing (except plan and train for your next job) until the severance comes. That is Exactly what IBM is doing for/to you.
I am in GBS and in front of clients daily. Let me tell you, they don’t want to get off mainframe to go to any IBM product. They want to get off mainframe as part of a transformation to get to SAP, JDE, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, or any other SaaS product that matches their business functions. Why move off something to go to something else you have to maintain just as much if not more than a mainframe? Whoever is running Cloud & Cognitive these days is completely out of their mind and out of touch.
who the hell gets a mainframe just to run linux workloads. hahahahaha
Mining the legacy SW stack on fortune 1000 mainframes is a growth area if you are in the SW modernization game Why do you think IBM bought Redhat
It may not be shrinking as fast as predicted, but it is shrinking. IBM needs to get back to investing in growth areas.
IBM is exploiting their monopoly (mainframe and enterprise relationships) It’s a very good strategy as the market is transforming toward them. Pieces of IBM will have to be thrown overboard as they don’t fit into the monopoly strategy. What pieces are getting nicked AK has shown his hand already Perform services, and Power have taken the brunt of the cuts so far, and most likely will into the future.
There is nothing wrong with mainframe. Stable, predictable revenue and customer base is not decreasing as fast as IBM predicted. Same as Services. The big myth of the Ginni era was that Systems and Services would decline over time. Competitors making record profits have shown that to be entirely false. I wish IBM would stop being embarrassed of Systems and Services and trying to wrap it in subpar cloud products with little market base.
"At the heart of its current vitality is Linux—primarily in the form of Big Iron-based Red Hat OpenShift—and a variety of software such as IBM Cloud Paks and open source applications."
Yeah... the guy writing the article has no clue whatsoever.... sorry!!