On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 17:31:32 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353 <peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > > I frankly doubt that the top layers of IBM even care if the z business > (eventually) goes away. Watson and cloud are their new saviors and future > cash cows > (or so they hope). > > Just my $0.02USD worth. > > Peter
Exactly! They are just managing the decline and extracting maximum profit out of it along the way, IBM (and more importantly Wall St.) have no interest in expanding the z business. I wouldn't exactly consider cloud a high margin business. Dana ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN