While IBM is rotating through futuristic themes each year (Smart Cities, Watson, Predictive Analytics), its enterprise customers are lagging behind. Attend an a

While IBM is rotating through futuristic themes each year (Smart Cities, Watson, Predictive Analytics), its enterprise customers are lagging behind. Attend an average IBM user group meeting in your area, and you'll see that these customers are busy maintaining core systems with an increasingly outdated tooling. They're struggling with more mundane issues such as integration, reliability, compliance - all of these under cost pressures. Also, Power is not selling that well in the mid-range segment. The new workloads are being designed for horizontal scalability which is where Linux comes in.