Do not delude yourself - IBM is surviving off of grifting big legacy IBM Technology and public sector contracts through their Consulting arm (...which they also

Do not delude yourself - IBM is surviving off of grifting big legacy IBM Technology and public sector contracts through their Consulting arm (...which they also bought, off of PwC) and near-/off-shoring. Most "Quantum Ambassadors" and similar are funded thanks to benevolence/nepotism of local management since they do not create billable hours or maintenance contracts. Adding to that, IBM's rolling out suffocating utilization targets for their employees in more and more countries which will take care of that as well. It's a dying company.