Forewarning that this is an incredibly biased viewpoint based on my experience with IBM and their products… They tend to target slower moving clients, think he

Forewarning that this is an incredibly biased viewpoint based on my experience with IBM and their products… They tend to target slower moving clients, think healthcare or the public sector. They sell them incredibly outdated products which tend to wall them in or limit their choices to other similarly outdated product offerings from IBM. This begins the support racket, it is not uncommon to see an error from an IBM product instructing you to reach out to your IBM support representative for help in resolving the issue. These support agreements are where quite a lot of their money is made. It goes deeper, many people who previously worked at IBM end up taking software architect positions within these slow-moving sectors. I am not saying it’s outright, but it seems quite obvious that these people are financially motivated to fold IBM products into any and every opportunity possible. Basically IBM has developed somewhat of a dark pattern for software sales and they use it to capture their clients. Extricating your organization from the IBM ecosystem is incredibly difficult and often an uphill battle.