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My anecdata involves a foreign market. Maybe IBM USA is more keen on keeping this rolling, but in Japan we got strong pushback and were led to cloud solutions e

My anecdata involves a foreign market. Maybe IBM USA is more keen on keeping this rolling, but in Japan we got strong pushback and were led to cloud solutions every time we discussed acquiring new hardware. They were very proactively trying to get us out of AS/400 and into their cloud platform.

speed_spread 3y ago
Interesting, maybe they feel that they have a strong enough grip on their customers that they can move them away from proprietary hardware to higher-margins proprietary cloud solutions.
- rbanffy 3y ago
  Or maybe someone's KPIs are aligned towards cloud growth.
  - bluepizza 3y ago
    That's true and it really is a major factor in dying technologies: where there is no growth, there is no investment.
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