> "They have been convincing customers to ditch their licensing renewals/maintenance contract and buy 'new' cloud services, which the customer doesn’t have to u

> "They have been convincing customers to ditch their licensing renewals/maintenance contract and buy 'new' cloud services, which the customer doesn’t have to use," our source told us at the time. > "IBM can book the ‘new’ services revenue as cloud revenue," the source claimed. "It is a quick and dirty scheme to inflate their cloud sales numbers. They are not new, they are simply gutting their software numbers." This just sounds like how MS considers office360 part of their cloud division/revenue from office360 as part of their cloud division. Do we know if they moved these services to run on their cloud? Nowhere is it mentioned the tune to which the executives benefited from this scheme. How much more money did they end up making because of this scheme?