On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:50 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it's the case that customers don't want to use IBMs cloud. Where I > live in Australia the big four banks are moving significant chunks of > their infrastructure to public cloud and have government legislation to > do so. NAB in particular have been quite aggressive, although like most > sensible enterprises they have gone down the multi-cloud route with > Microsoft Azure so they don't have all their eggs in one basket. > > It will be interesting to see if IBM can close the cloud gap. Playing > catch-up is difficult when competing with behemoths with a decade+ head > start. > Indeed. Word from insiders is that since IBM "management" have decided cloud is The Answer, folks have started playing games, like attributing all CICS-related revenue as "cloud". Q4 2020, IBM claimed $6.2B in cloud revenue on total revenue of $16B. Given that nobody EVER says"cloud" and "IBM" in the same sentence in the real world, those numbers are quite difficult to believe without this kind of gameplaying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
