IBM is fully aware of this trend, and they're presumably banking on the RHAT enterprise focused k8s distro at least as much as the legacy enterprise Linux distr

IBM is fully aware of this trend, and they're presumably banking on the RHAT enterprise focused k8s distro at least as much as the legacy enterprise Linux distro. It's questionable whether this can save them this late in the game, but there's solid seasoning behind it. IBM had few other ways to remain relevant as even crufty enterprise customers will eventually start move forward with containerization of workloads.