The Handelsblatt daily cited an internal memo which said 400 employees in six countries would switch to
IBM in May.
Sacrificial lambs to be RA'd within a year or so of the acquisition closing. For recent evidence, just ask the Verizon folks that were part of IBM's acquisition of Verizon's cloud business.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-telekom-tsystems-ibm/t-systems-to-sell-mainframe-unit-to-ibm-handelsblatt-idUSKCN1P70OQ