What are the top 5 products that are actually making money for ibm?
Mainframe?
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MQ for about a Billion a year, not counting services related to the product.
Services. But mostly services around other companies technologies since many of IBMs aren’t as competitive.
$26B a year in cloud and growing around 20%. Folks are upset with their xp with IBM has gone and won't like to hear that. Boo. Better down vote the truth cause I don't like it. Lol
Some companies with ancient IT programs and leadership mistakenly believe they still "need" mainframe, iseries or pseries systems.
My client only stays on DB2 because a move off of it would eliminate his need to his company. He’s the resident DB2 expert. He’s incentivized to keep it that way. A lot of our clients are like this. An unsustainable business model for sure.
Definitely mainframes and in this order: SW, TSS maintenance, and last HW. Overall, this is a slightly declining revenue stream.
IBM try to "hide" this fact by labeling some - if not most - of this revenue "cloud".
Some of us know better!
Mainframes! And subscriptions on legacy software that’s too painful to move off of. I only hit my quota because of refreshes.