3 ms·
And that's also a good defensive move. Given the market is moving, even IBM's major customers would eventually migrate to newer technologies. (On the order of
by ethbro 7y ago
And that's also a good defensive move.
Given the market is moving, even IBM's major customers would eventually migrate to newer technologies. (On the order of decades)
By providing something that mostly satisfies that need, IBM essentially drilled a relief well to take the pressure off. When they're ready to migrate, they could get 80% value of what a non-IBM migration would get them by moving to IBM's product.
For a lot of large, slow, conservative orgs, that's good enough.
- chr15p 7y agokinda, I mean, IBM consulting have been happy to move customers off legacy IBM/AIX/DB2 onto Dell kit running Oracle on windows for decades now if thats what the customer wanted and was prepared to pay, precisely because its better to take the services revenue and the reseller margin then lose everything. So that relief well was drilled years ago, and certainly the name IBM helped with persuading those slow conservative orgs to use their services, but this predates the Red Hat acquisition by a looong time. IBM have been a major reseller of RHEL for those migrations for years, this just means they take the software as well as the services revenue, and (they hope) can sell RH software into more of those conservative accounts by bundling it under the IBM family.